Guest simonc Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 I opened a command window with cmd.exe /u but when I used dir to display the directory contents of a folder which has filenames with Russian characters each of these characters displayed as a question mark. Should it be possible to display Russian characters in a cmd window? If so, is there something wrong with my setup? I am using Win XP Pro, SP3. Grateful for assistance.
Guest Anteaus Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 RE: cmd.exe and unicode characters If it helps, there is an extra tab on the Regional properties which sets the commandline character-set. This is often overlooked, resulting in an American keyboard layout in DOS sessions despite a UK locale. Whether this permits a Cyrillic character-set, I've never tried. I think in principle it should, though. This probably wouldn't need unicode as it only requires a few extra symbols as compared to the numerous extra symbols required by, for example, Chinese or Korean. -------------------------- "This is a wonderful computer. It''s 20yrs old and absolutely reliable. And, in all that time it''s only had four mobos, six processors, two cases, seven OS''s ...." "simonc" wrote: > I opened a command window with cmd.exe /u but when I used dir to display the > directory contents of a folder which has filenames with Russian characters > each of these characters displayed as a question mark. Should it be possible > to display Russian characters in a cmd window? If so, is there something > wrong with my setup? > > I am using Win XP Pro, SP3. > > Grateful for assistance.
Guest simonc Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 RE: cmd.exe and unicode characters Thanks for your reply. Where is the extra tab? In Control Panel>Regional and Language Options there are only tabs for Regional Options and Languages, and nowhere does there seem to be any reference to command line character sets. "Anteaus" wrote: > If it helps, there is an extra tab on the Regional properties which sets the > commandline character-set. This is often overlooked, resulting in an American > keyboard layout in DOS sessions despite a UK locale. > > Whether this permits a Cyrillic character-set, I've never tried. I think in > principle it should, though. > > This probably wouldn't need unicode as it only requires a few extra symbols > as compared to the numerous extra symbols required by, for example, Chinese > or Korean. >
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