Quincy Center for Technical Education
Computer Technology Department

Chcp

Displays the number of the active console code page, or changes the active console code page that Windows 2000 is to use for the console. Only the OEM code page installed with Windows 2000 will appear correctly in a command prompt window using Raster fonts. Other code pages will appear correctly in full-screen mode or command prompt windows that are using TrueType fonts.

chcp [nnn]

Parameter

none

Used without parameters, chcp displays the number of the active console code page.

nnn

Specifies the code page. The following list shows each code page that Windows 2000 supports and its Country/Region or language:

437 United States
850 Multilingual (Latin I)
852 Slavic (Latin II)
855 Cyrillic (Russian)
857 Turkish
860 Portuguese
861 Icelandic
863 Canadian-French
865 Nordic
866 Russian
869 Modern Greek