Windows Console Character Sets

The operating system and the command console must have the same character sets. Mismatches occur on Microsoft Windows systems, where the operating system is set to one character set, but the DOS command prompt uses a different, older DOS character set. Oracle GoldenGate uses the character set of the operating system to send information to GGSCI command output; therefore a non-matching console character set causes characters not to display correctly. You can set the character set of the console before opening a GGSCI session by using the following DOS command:

chcp codepagenumber

For example, chcp 437.

For a code page overview, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317752(v=vs.85).aspx and the list of code page identifiers https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx.