Chinese (Unicode) issue in Windows command Prompt

[Udhayakumar Gururaj]

Hi,

i am working on Chinese language issue,

In English OS when i try to print the Chinese characters in Windows command prompt, It does not support instead of it printing "???"

In Chinese OS It displays correctly.

please give me some ideas to clear this issue.

The following scenarios i have tested,

1. Installed the Language pack for chinese language.
2. Writing the Chinese characters using the printStream
3. Decoded to UTF8 Characters
4. Changing the System locales in control panel


But it does not helped me lot.


Thanks in Advance.

Udhay

[Campbell Ritchie]

I think this question might fit better elsewhere, so I shall duplicate it.

I Googled and found this; I haven't tried it so I don't know whether it works, but it looks promising.

[K. Tsang]

First off the English Windows OS does not come with East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. Installing that font pack may help.

Another issue does Windows command prompt support UTF8 for English OS? Can the command prompt specify what font it can use?

If you run the program inside an IDE, the font should display without problem.

[Paul Clapham]

In the Windows shell, it's the "Code Page" which determines how bytes are converted to glyphs on the screen. You can use the CHCP command to change your shell's code page and to determine what it is.

So: In your Chinese Windows, use CHCP to find out what code page it's using. Then in your other-place Windows, use CHCP to change the code page to that code page before you run your application. (It may be the case that your other-place Windows doesn't support that code page, and you might have to install something to make it change its mind about that.)