Setting codepage

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inkleputDEL

How can you set the codepage. I apparently misunderstood instructions
when I tried:

mode con codepage select=850

because it stayed as it was before.


JimL

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mode device codepage select=yyy

Try this.

mode device codepage select=850

850 is Multilingual (Latin I)

See...
To select, refresh, or display the numbers of the code pages for the console
in Mode HELP
Paste the following line into Start | Run and click OK...

hh ntcmds.chm::/mode.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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In <[email protected]>, on 02/18/07
at 12:44 PM, "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]> said:

Well, the instructions said.
device
Required. Specifies the device for which you want to select a code page.
CON is the only valid name for a device.

Not being well versed in these things I can only take for exactly what it
says. Anyway, the line you suggested gives the same result - no change.

I wonder how many roofs would cave in if I put CODEPAGE=850 in config.sys.

Thanks
mode device codepage select=yyy
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Try this.
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mode device codepage select=850
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850 is Multilingual (Latin I)
Click to expand...
See...
To select, refresh, or display the numbers of the code pages for the
console in Mode HELP
Paste the following line into Start | Run and click OK...
Click to expand...
hh ntcmds.chm::/mode.htm
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JimL

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How can you set the codepage. I apparently misunderstood instructions
when I tried:

mode con codepage select=850

because it stayed as it was before.
Click to expand...


Try
chcp 850


The display fonts changes only in real fullscreen or with
the font Lucida Console. It does not work with bitmap fonts.


Uwe
 
I copied and pasted the wrong thing, sorry about that.

mode con codepage select=850 works for me.

Example.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>
C:\>
C:\>chcp
Active code page: 437

C:\>
C:\>
C:\>mode con codepage select=850

Status for device CON:
----------------------
Lines: 2500
Columns: 80
Keyboard rate: 31
Keyboard delay: 1
Code page: 850


C:\>
C:\>
C:\>chcp
Active code page: 850

C:\>
C:\>
C:\>chcp 437
Active code page: 437

C:\>
C:\>chcp
Active code page: 437

C:\>
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Chcp help
hh ntcmds.chm::/chcp.htm

Graftabl help
hh ntcmds.chm::/graftabl.htm
I wonder how many roofs would cave in if I put CODEPAGE=850 in config.sys.
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If using Windows XP, use config.nt. %windir%\system32\CONFIG.NT. XP pretty
much ignores config.sys.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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