What's the encoding of the error message?

[Hasan Aljudy]

James Dunne wrote:
> sailormoontw wrote:
> 
>> In article <e4nhpk$24kq$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, James Pelcis says...
>>
>>> The character encoding is UTF8 for sure, but what the characters are is
>>> a different story.
>>>
>>> std.file will append the error message returned by Windows.  What
>>> language is Windows set to use?
>>
>>
>> In my default Console Mode(MSDos Box that is) it's set to codepage 
>> 950, but I
>> cannot find a setting to make it UTF-8. And if I didn't remember 
>> wrong, the
>> English charaters in ANSI should be the same as UTF-8, I am not sure 
>> why it
>> shows strange characters that doesn't seem to be English..
>>
>> Thanks for the answer ^_^.
>>
>>
> 
> 'chcp 65001' for UTF-8 output in the command console and use Lucida 
> Console as the raster font to display some Unicode characters.
> 

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How do you change the code page for the command line interface (dos box)?