Windows – How to get a Unicode-supporting font for Windows 7 command-line

Here that range is mostly filled by Deja Vu Sans, STIXGeneral, VL Gothic, UnDotum, and... "MiscFixed", whatever that is (in the OCR section). Only holes at U+244A, U+24EB through U+24FF, U+269D, U+26BA through U+26BC, U+26C0 through U+26C3, and U+27CA remain.

This is a very old question, but all of the answers given here are wrong.

You will never see Unicode output on the Windows command line (CMD.exe). The reason is that CMD cannot display Unicode. It can, however, display DBCS (Double-Byte Character Set).

If you want to see Japanese output, for example, you have to change your System Locale to Japanese and reboot. Then, you'll be able to see Japanese DBCS (i.e. Shift-JIS) characters on the command line. Windows supports Japanese Shift-JIS, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese "Big5" DBCS code pages.

Incidentally, you can pipe UTF-16 (inaccurately used interchangeably with "Unicode" by Microsoft) to a file, then open that file in, say, Notepad, and view the Unicode characters. You can also mark and copy the gibberish text from CMD.exe and paste it into Notepad and see the Unicode characters. In other words, CMD supports Unicode, but it doesn't display Unicode.

You can find more information in this blog post.