Mongo shell in Windows 7 "unicode text could not be correctly displayed"

Question

I am using Windows 7 64 bit and I have English and Greek language installed for my keyboard. If I switch to mongo shell and I try to write a UTF Greek character, I get this error

"Unicode text could not be correctly displayed.
Please change your console font to a Unicode font (e.g. Lucida Console)."

and it exits from the mongo shell.

Also when I type db.names.find() it displays the contents of the names collection but the UTF characters are messed up.

I can write UTF characters in regular cmd prompt without problems.

Answer 1

I solved this problem for my system by doing this procedure and changing font to Lucida Console. Before that it was set to Raster Fonts.

1. Open cmd
2. Right-click on the title bar
3. Choose Properties
4. Select the Font tab and from there choose the Lucida Console font and press ok.