echoing other language texts?

[tcpman]

is there anyway to echo arabic,persian,russian,Chinese,etc texts in cmd?
(i preform not using external tools)
i serached about this and looks like i have to change the font and chcp but still i cant get the correct output i want!

tnx for your help

[Liviu]

In XP and earlier it's only possible if you already have an environment variable or a file/directory name containing those characters. In Windows 7 or later it's possible to build such strings in code from scratch, see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5358 and viewtopic.php?p=34662.

Liviu

[OperatorGK]

Use codepages 866 or 1251 to echo text in Russian. I'm from Russia and our default codepage for CMD.EXE is 866. And it's better use hex editor or Notepad++ codepage functions to enter those characters. Example of code:

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@echo off
chcp 866 >nul
echo Привет &rem Russian "Hello"

Open Notepad++, change file codepage to OEM-866 and paste this code. Save it and run. It will produce correct output.

[Liviu]

@OperatorGK, that works indeed if one only needs characters from one single codepage, such as Cyrillic 866. However, I took OP's question to be about mixing multiple scripts in the same batch, which can't be done via chcp alone - for example, there is no one codepage to cover both Cyrillic and Greek. My answer above applies to that latter case.

[OperatorGK]

If so, use cmd /U /C "script.bat". It will turn Unicode on.

[Liviu]

'cmd /u' does indeed turn "the output of internal commands to a pipe or file" to be Unicode, but it does not affect (or matter for) the console output itself - which was the original question here. The following will work correctly at a plain 'cmd' prompt as long as it's set to use a TT (not raster) font such as Lucida Console, without '/u' and regardless of the active codepage.

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C:\tmp>echo àáâāăąǻ αβγδεζη абвгдеж
àáâāăąǻ αβγδεζη абвгдеж