Dos command: chcp


command Description
chcp Displays the number of the active console code page.
chcp cp_number Change the console active console code page.

Code page Additional information
037 IBM EBCDIC US-Canada
437 OEM United States
500 IBM EBCDIC International
708 Arabic (ASMO 708)
709 Arabic (ASMO-449+, BCON V4)
710 Arabic - Transparent Arabic
720 Arabic (Transparent ASMO); Arabic (DOS)
737 OEM Greek (formerly 437G); Greek (DOS)
775 OEM Baltic; Baltic (DOS)
850 OEM Multilingual Latin 1; Western European (DOS)
852 OEM Latin 2; Central European (DOS)
855 OEM Cyrillic (primarily Russian)
857 OEM Turkish; Turkish (DOS)
858 OEM Multilingual Latin 1 + Euro symbol
860 OEM Portuguese; Portuguese (DOS)
861 OEM Icelandic; Icelandic (DOS)
862 OEM Hebrew; Hebrew (DOS)
863 OEM French Canadian; French Canadian (DOS)
864 OEM Arabic; Arabic (864)
865 OEM Nordic; Nordic (DOS)
866 OEM Russian; Cyrillic (DOS)
869 OEM Modern Greek; Greek, Modern (DOS)
870 IBM EBCDIC Multilingual/ROECE (Latin 2); IBM EBCDIC Multilingual Latin 2
874 ANSI/OEM Thai (same as 28605, ISO 8859-15); Thai (Windows)
875 IBM EBCDIC Greek Modern
932 ANSI/OEM Japanese; Japanese (Shift-JIS)
936 ANSI/OEM Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore); Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
949 ANSI/OEM Korean (Unified Hangul Code)
950 ANSI/OEM Traditional Chinese (Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Chinese Traditional (Big5)
1026 IBM EBCDIC Turkish (Latin 5)
1047 IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System
1140 IBM EBCDIC US-Canada (037 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (US-Canada-Euro)
1141 IBM EBCDIC Germany (20273 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Germany-Euro)
1142 IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway (20277 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Denmark-Norway-Euro)
1143 IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden (20278 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Finland-Sweden-Euro)
1144 IBM EBCDIC Italy (20280 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Italy-Euro)
1145 IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain (20284 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Spain-Euro)
1146 IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom (20285 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (UK-Euro)
1147 IBM EBCDIC France (20297 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (France-Euro)
1148 IBM EBCDIC International (500 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (International-Euro)
1149 IBM EBCDIC Icelandic (20871 + Euro symbol); IBM EBCDIC (Icelandic-Euro)
1200 Unicode UTF-16, little endian byte order (BMP of ISO 10646); available only to managed applications
1201 Unicode UTF-16, big endian byte order; available only to managed applications
1250 ANSI Central European; Central European (Windows)
1251 ANSI Cyrillic; Cyrillic (Windows)
1252 ANSI Latin 1; Western European (Windows)
1253 ANSI Greek; Greek (Windows)
1254 ANSI Turkish; Turkish (Windows)
1255 ANSI Hebrew; Hebrew (Windows)
1256 ANSI Arabic; Arabic (Windows)
1257 ANSI Baltic; Baltic (Windows)
1258 ANSI/OEM Vietnamese; Vietnamese (Windows)
1361 Korean (Johab)
10000 MAC Roman; Western European (Mac)
10001 Japanese (Mac)
10002 MAC Traditional Chinese (Big5); Chinese Traditional (Mac)
10003 Korean (Mac)
10004 Arabic (Mac)
10005 Hebrew (Mac)
10006 Greek (Mac)
10007 Cyrillic (Mac)
10008 MAC Simplified Chinese (GB 2312); Chinese Simplified (Mac)
10010 Romanian (Mac)
10017 Ukrainian (Mac)
10021 Thai (Mac)
10029 MAC Latin 2; Central European (Mac)
10079 Icelandic (Mac)
10081 Turkish (Mac)
10082 Croatian (Mac)
12000 Unicode UTF-32, little endian byte order; available only to managed applications
12001 Unicode UTF-32, big endian byte order; available only to managed applications
20000 CNS Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (CNS)
20001 TCA Taiwan
20002 Eten Taiwan; Chinese Traditional (Eten)
20003 IBM5550 Taiwan
20004 TeleText Taiwan
20005 Wang Taiwan
20105 IA5 (IRV International Alphabet No. 5, 7-bit); Western European (IA5)
20106 IA5 German (7-bit)
20107 IA5 Swedish (7-bit)
20108 IA5 Norwegian (7-bit)
20127 US-ASCII (7-bit)
20261 T.61
20269 ISO 6937 Non-Spacing Accent
20273 IBM EBCDIC Germany
20277 IBM EBCDIC Denmark-Norway
20278 IBM EBCDIC Finland-Sweden
20280 IBM EBCDIC Italy
20284 IBM EBCDIC Latin America-Spain
20285 IBM EBCDIC United Kingdom
20290 IBM EBCDIC Japanese Katakana Extended
20297 IBM EBCDIC France
20420 IBM EBCDIC Arabic
20423 IBM EBCDIC Greek
20424 IBM EBCDIC Hebrew
20833 IBM EBCDIC Korean Extended
20838 IBM EBCDIC Thai
20866 Russian (KOI8-R); Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
20871 IBM EBCDIC Icelandic
20880 IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Russian
20905 IBM EBCDIC Turkish
20924 IBM EBCDIC Latin 1/Open System (1047 + Euro symbol)
20932 Japanese (JIS 0208-1990 and 0121-1990)
20936 Simplified Chinese (GB2312); Chinese Simplified (GB2312-80)
20949 Korean Wansung
21025 IBM EBCDIC Cyrillic Serbian-Bulgarian
21027 (deprecated)
21866 Ukrainian (KOI8-U); Cyrillic (KOI8-U)
28591 ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)
28592 ISO 8859-2 Central European; Central European (ISO)
28593 ISO 8859-3 Latin 3
28594 ISO 8859-4 Baltic
28595 ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
28596 ISO 8859-6 Arabic
28597 ISO 8859-7 Greek
28598 ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Visual)
28599 ISO 8859-9 Turkish
28603 ISO 8859-13 Estonian
28605 ISO 8859-15 Latin 9
29001 Europa 3
38598 ISO 8859-8 Hebrew; Hebrew (ISO-Logical)
50220 ISO 2022 Japanese with no halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS)
50221 ISO 2022 Japanese with halfwidth Katakana; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
50222 ISO 2022 Japanese JIS X 0201-1989; Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana - SO/SI)
50225 ISO 2022 Korean
50227 ISO 2022 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (ISO 2022)
50229 ISO 2022 Traditional Chinese
50930 EBCDIC Japanese (Katakana) Extended
50931 EBCDIC US-Canada and Japanese
50933 EBCDIC Korean Extended and Korean
50935 EBCDIC Simplified Chinese Extended and Simplified Chinese
50936 EBCDIC Simplified Chinese
50937 EBCDIC US-Canada and Traditional Chinese
50939 EBCDIC Japanese (Latin) Extended and Japanese
51932 EUC Japanese
51936 EUC Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (EUC)
51949 EUC Korean
51950 EUC Traditional Chinese
52936 HZ-GB2312 Simplified Chinese; Chinese Simplified (HZ)
54936 Windows XP and later: GB18030 Simplified Chinese (4 byte); Chinese Simplified (GB18030)
57002 ISCII Devanagari
57003 ISCII Bengali
57004 ISCII Tamil
57005 ISCII Telugu
57006 ISCII Assamese
57007 ISCII Oriya
57008 ISCII Kannada
57009 ISCII Malayalam
57010 ISCII Gujarati
57011 ISCII Punjabi
65000 Unicode (UTF-7)
65001 Unicode (UTF-8)