Chcp

Chcp


MS-DOS and Windows command line chcp command

  • The chcp command is used to supplement the international keyboard and character set information, allowing MS-DOS to be used in other countries and with different languages. Before the chcp command can be used, the nlsfunc must be loaded, as well as the country.sys must be loaded into the config.sys.

    Availability

  • Chcp is an external command that is available for the following Microsoft operating systems as chcp.com.

  • MS-DOS 6.22 and above

  • Windows 95

  • Windows 98

  • Windows ME

  • Windows NT

  • Windows 2000

  • Windows XP

  • Windows Vista

  • Windows 7

  • Windows 8

  • Windows 10

    Country and Regions

  • Keybrd2.sys Country/Regions

  • 274, 275 - Brazil

  • 442 - Bulgaria

  • 319 - Greece

  • 161 - Iceland

  • 118 - Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro

  • 333 - Romania

  • 441 - Russian

  • 440, 179 - Turkish

    Code pages

    EGA.CPI Codepages

  • 437 - United States

  • 850 - Multilingual (Latin I)

  • 852 - Slavic/Eastern European

  • 860 - Portuguese

  • 863 - Canadian-French

  • 865 - Nordic

    EGA2.CPI Codepages

  • 737 - Greek II

  • 850 - Multilingual (Latin I)

  • 852 - Slavic/Eastern European

  • 857 - Turkish

  • 861 - Greek

    EGA3.CPI Codepages

  • 437 - United States

  • 850 - Multilingual (Latin I)

  • 852 - Slavic/Eastern European

  • 855 - Cyrillic I

  • 866 - Russian (Cyrillic II)

    Code syntax

  • Displays or sets the active code page number.

    CHCP nnn

    The nnn specifies a code page number.

    Type CHCP without a parameter to display the active code page number.

    Code examples
    chcp
    Display the page number.

    chcp 447
    Sets the active page to 447.

    How to load

    Note

  • If you are using MS-DOS, you would want to substitute c:\windows\command with c:\dos in the examples below.

    Autoexec.bat
    country=354,861; c:\windows\command.country.sys
    Device=c:\windows\command\display.sys con=(,,2)
    Config.sys
    mode con cp prepare=((861 850) c:\windows\command\ega2.cpi)
    mode con cp select=861
    keyb is,,c:\windows\command\keybrd2.sys


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