cyrillic text in the command prompt

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Michael Harris \(MVP\)

BigMan said:
Is it possible to display cyrillic text in the command prompt? If so,
how?
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Have you tried running cmd.exe with the /U switch?

/U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be Unicode
 
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Matthias Tacke

Michael said:
Have you tried running cmd.exe with the /U switch?

/U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be Unicode
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IMO that won't help. IF the destination is the console, the output is
converted to the active codepage. Characters not contained in that cp
can't be properly displayed.

HTH
 

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