Displaying Unicode on the console (Windows)

[Ben Hutchings]

In article <ptnosvmm.fsf at morpheus.demon.co.uk>, Paul Moore wrote:
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> PS Is there any way of forcing the Windows 2000/XP console to display
>    Unicode in any form (UTF-8, maybe) rather than having to deal with
>    code pages???

UTF-8 is code page 65001.

Strangely, though, I get 'permission denied' when I run "chcp 65001" and
then try to print a UTF-8-encoded Euro sign.  I don't know what could be
going wrong there.