CHCP--Examples

To view the active character set setting, type the following command:

    chcp

MS-DOS responds with a message similar to the following:

    Active code page: 437

To change the active character set to 850 (Multilingual), type the following
command:

    chcp 850

MS-DOS alerts you if the specified character set has not been prepared for
your system. The following error message appears:

    Invalid code page

If a device (monitor, keyboard, printer) is not prepared for a character
set, MS-DOS displays an error message in the following format:

    Code page 850 not prepared for device nnn