I am programming in a Chinese character environment. I ran into two problems. First, I can't change directory using bat. In bat file I cd D:, but this line does not actually change the directory. The next line working directory goes back to C:.
And, it seems that the cmd is not recognizing Chinese characters. I tried chcp 65001 but it does not work. How to make the cmd able to recognize Chinese characters?
I did a lot of googling but did not quite get an answer. Thanks in advance.
Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current directory for a drive:
cd /D D:
Another approach: PUSHD Change the current directory/folder and store the previous folder/path for use by the POPD command:
pushd D:
Some commands in CMD Shell (which runs inside the Windows Console cmd) recognise Chinese characters quite well even in non-Chinese environment, see below example. For instance, my Windows settings are
CP852/ANSI1250.Please note that I have no special CJK support set up! Unfortunately, there is still very limited support for unicode in the CMD shell.
C:> reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage | find "CP"
ACP REG_SZ 1250
OEMCP REG_SZ 852
MACCP REG_SZ 10029
C:\> chcp
Active code page: 852
C:\> pushd "D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))"
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))> dir /B / S
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\chinese traditional.txt
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\二月.mp3
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\女
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣.rtf
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\女\印度舞娘时装上衣
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣\inside_CJK.txt
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))> popd
C:\> dir /B /S "D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))"
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\chinese traditional.txt
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\二月.mp3
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\女
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣.rtf
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\中文(繁體)\女\印度舞娘时装上衣
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))\装备女印度舞娘时装上衣\inside_CJK.txt
Edit. This can be done even using a .bat file providing that the .bat file is saved and run in the same ANSI code page (see National Language Support (NLS) API Reference to choose code page for Simplified or Traditional Chinese, i.e. 936 or 950, respectively), or that the .bat file is saved in UTF-8 (without BOM) and run under its cmd equivalent chcp 65001:
C:\Utils> chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001
C:\Utils> type D:\bat\SO\q44501393.bat
@ECHO ON
pushd "D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))"
dir /B *.txt
@rem next command opens "中文(台灣).txt" in default app for `.txt` files
start "" "中文(台灣).txt"
C:\Utils> D:\bat\SO\q44501393.bat
C:\Utils> pushd "D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))"
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))> dir /B *.txt
中文(台灣).txt
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))> start "" "中文(台灣).txt"
D:\bat\Unusual Names\CJK (中文(繁體))> popd
C:\Utils>
To change the directory in batch (cmd) you have to do:
cd D:\
In your picture you did "D:" without the "\"; this is wrong.
I hope I was able to help you.
PS: There isn't anyway to change the display language from Chinese to English because cmd.exe is an Windows System Application which is based on the system language. If you want to have cmd in English, you must change the system language in English or reinstall Windows with a English distro.
