Currently I'm running Windows 7 x64 and usually I want all console tools to work with UTF-8 rather than with default code page 850.
Running chcp 65001
in the command prompt prior to use of any tools helps but is there any way to set is as default code page?
Update:
Changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP
value to 65001
appear to make the system unable to boot in my case.
Proposed change of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\Autorun
to @chcp 65001>nul
served just well for my purpose. (thanks to Ole_Brun)
Best Answer
To change the codepage for the console only, do the following:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\Autorun]
@chcp 65001>nul
If
Autorun
is not present, you can add aNew String