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.

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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"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.

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.
>