How to make Unicode charset in cmd exe by default

Question

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

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Save the following into a file with   reg  suffix   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY CURRENT USER Console  SystemRoot  system32 cmd exe   CodePage  dword 0000fde9   Double click this file  and regedit will import it   It basically sets the key HKEY CURRENT USER Console  SystemRoot  system32 cmd exe CodePage to 0xfde9  65001 in decimal system

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Open an elevated Command Prompt  run cmd as administrator   query your registry for available TT fonts to the console by       REG query  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Console TrueTypeFont    You ll see an output like        0    REG SZ    Lucida Console     00    REG SZ    Consolas     936    REG SZ             932    REG SZ     MS        Now we need to add a TT font that supports the characters you need like Courier New  we do this by adding zeros to the string name  so in this case the next one would be  000         REG ADD  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Console TrueTypeFont   v 000  t REG SZ  d  Courier New    Now we implement UTF-8 support       REG ADD HKCU Console  v CodePage  t REG DWORD  d 65001  f   Set default font to  Courier New        REG ADD HKCU Console  v FaceName  t REG SZ  d  Courier New   f   Set font size to 20        REG ADD HKCU Console  v FontSize  t REG DWORD  d 20  f   Enable quick edit if you like        REG ADD HKCU Console  v QuickEdit  t REG DWORD  d 1  f

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Reg file  Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00  HKEY CURRENT USER Console   CodePage  dword fde9   Command Prompt  REG ADD HKCU Console  v CodePage  t REG DWORD  d 0xfde9   PowerShell  sp -t d HKCU  Console CodePage 0xfde9   Cygwin  regtool set  user Console CodePage 0xfde9

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After I tried algirdas  solution  my Windows crashed  Win 7 Pro 64bit  so I decided to try a different solution    Start Run  Win R  Type 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

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