Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe

tompagenet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have tried outputting Unicode characters to cmd.exe. I have the font of cmd windows set to Lucinda. I've tried this:

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
system('chcp 65001');
print "\x{016B} \n";
print "ё \n";
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This is saved in a perl program in a UTF-8 encoded file. I have run this and this is the output I get on the screen:

Active code page: 65001
&#363;

бё
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Why am I getting that "б" before the pound sign? Any ideas how to fix it? Note that the ū *does* appear correctly as a u with a bar, but it won't display in this post. Tom

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Re: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by massa (Hermit) on Jul 13, 2008 at 16:25 UTC
Your script is probably using UTF-8 (as the encoding of the body of the script). So, you must `use utf8;` [download] I, personally (as a Brasilian that has pt_BR as native language), start all my scripts with: `use strict; use warnings; use utf8; # I will write this script in UTF-8 use open qw(:std :locale); # All files to be open in the native cp use locale; # I want my string comparisons according to native locale` [download] This makes my I/O to be done in cp1252 in Windows, and in Latin1 or UTF-8 in linux. I edit my scripts in vim with UTF-8 encoding in both platforms. Update:I recently learned that `use open qw(:std :locale);` [download] and `use open qw(:locale);` [download] do the same thing. []s, HTH, Massa	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by Burak (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2008 at 13:02 UTC
I think the dosbox uses cp8xx encodings not 12xx ones. That's an annoying problem for all non-latin1 AFAIK :p Dumb dos... And the code sample you gave does not seem to work for my locale (tr). All I get is this warning instead: `Cannot figure out an encoding to use` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by massa (Hermit) on Jul 15, 2008 at 00:18 UTC
Heh, your OS is not passing the correct locale. You can switch `:locale` in the use open to: `use open ':std', ':encoding(iso-8859-9)';` [download] (for example, if the encoding you use is that, `':encoding(cp857)'` if not)... []s, HTH, Massa	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by Burak (Chaplain) on Jul 15, 2008 at 08:27 UTC
Re: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by Thelonius (Priest) on Jul 13, 2008 at 16:24 UTC
Add "use utf8;" to the start of your program to tell perl that the file is in encoded in UTF-8.	[reply]
Re: Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe by Anonymous Monk on Nov 03, 2008 at 11:09 UTC
КэЛБДА	[reply]