Only the OEM font you installed as part of Windows displays properly when you
use a raster font in a windowed command prompt. However, you can use any of the supported code
pages in full screen mode or with a TrueType font. This utility uses the following syntax:
CHCP [nnn]
The following describes the command line argument.
nnn Defines the code page to use. The standard code page numbers appear in Table 5.1. Code
pages 874 through 1258 are both OEM and ANSI implementations that are only available in
Windows. You can install additional code pages as needed. The Web site at http://www.i18nguy
.com/unicode/codepages.html#msftdos shows how these code pages appear.
Table 5.1: Standard OEM and OEM/ANSI Code Pages
Code Page Country 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
874 Thai
932 Japanese Shift-JIS
936 Simplified Chinese GBK
949 Korean
950 Traditional Chinese Big5
1258 Vietnam
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Adding DPMI Support Using the DosX Utility
The DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) is one method for a DOS application to access more than
the 640 KB that DOS (the command line) typically allows.
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