Cmder: "chcp 65001" (UTF-8) support for cmd

Created on 18 Jan 2014 · 6Comments · Source: cmderdev/cmder

Hello!

What's the proper way to support UTF-8 in cmd with cmder?
Executing chcp 65001 works well. I tried to add it in _/vendor/init.bat_ but is shows up every time I open a new tab.

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pihug12

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I added these two lines at the end of _/vendor/init.bat_ :

@chcp 65001 > nul
@set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

The Python 2.7 interpreter launched from cmd works correctly now.

pihug12 on 18 Jan 2014

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Hey, try add @ before like chcp 65001. It will disable the echo

samvasko on 18 Jan 2014

I added these two lines at the end of _/vendor/init.bat_ :

@chcp 65001 > nul
@set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

The Python 2.7 interpreter launched from cmd works correctly now.

pihug12 on 18 Jan 2014

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Just ran into the same problem and searched for hours...
Maybe that should be in /vendor/init.bat by default? But I don't know...

promethe42 on 4 May 2016

I have that in my user startup file, too, but there are sometimes problems: the worst is more:

λ which more
C:\Windows\System32\more.com
λ more
Nicht genügend Arbeitsspeicher. # Not enough free RAM
λ echo "hello" | more
Nicht genügend Arbeitsspeicher.

I had some fun until I found out what it was: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/install.cmd#L13

jankatins on 4 May 2016

@samvasko Thank you!
I need to set UTF-8 on intellij console using cmder.
So added @set LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8 in /vendor/init.bat
177

It works good.

david-learner on 2 May 2018

Hello,
I do the same, but i replace ko_KR by fr_FR as follows 👍
`echo :: use in front of the command to prevent printing the command
echo.
echo :: uncomment this to have the ssh agent load when cmder starts
echo :: call "%%GIT_INSTALL_ROOT%%/cmd/start-ssh-agent.cmd"
echo.
echo :: uncomment this next two lines to use pageant as the ssh authentication agent
echo :: SET SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/.ssh-pageant-auth-sock
echo :: call "%%GIT_INSTALL_ROOT%%/cmd/start-ssh-pageant.cmd"
echo.
echo :: you can add your plugins to the cmder path like so
echo :: set "PATH=%%CMDER_ROOT%%\vendor\whatever;%%PATH%%"
echo.
) > "%CMDER_ROOT%\config\user-profile.cmd"
)
@set LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
exit /b'
It seems not working, the character "é" becomes |-®