866 charset installed by default in Windows' cmd.exe is poor and inconvinient as compared with glorious Unicode.
Can I install Unicode by default or replace cmd.exe to another console and make it default so programms use it instead of cmd.exe?
I understand that chcp 65001 changes encoding only in the running console. I want to change charset at the system level.
After I tried algirdas' solution, my Windows crashed (Win 7 Pro 64bit) so I decided to try a different solution:
Run
(Win+R)cmd /K chcp 65001
You will get mostly what you want. To start it from the taskbar or anywhere else, make a shortcut (you can name it cmd.unicode.exe
or whatever you like) and change its Target
to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K chcp 65001
.