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graftabl

Enables Windows operating systems to display an extended character set in graphics mode. If used without parameters, graftabl displays the previous and the current code page.

Important

The graftabl command is a legacy command, and therefore outdated. It is normally not installed in modern Windows versions. Please see the chcp page for codepage handling.

Syntax

graftabl <codepage>
graftabl /status

Parameters

Parameter Description
<codepage> Specifies a code page to define the appearance of extended characters in graphics mode. Valid code page identification numbers are:
  • 437 - United States
  • 850 - Multilingual (Latin I)
  • 852 - Slavic (Latin II)
  • 855 - Cyrillic (Russian)
  • 857 - Turkish
  • 860 - Portuguese
  • 861 - Icelandic
  • 863 - Canadian-French
  • 865 - Nordic
  • 866 - Russian
  • 869 - Modern Greek
/status Displays the current code page being used by this command.
/? Displays help at the command prompt.

Remarks

  • The graftabl command affects only the monitor display of extended characters of the code page that you specify. It doesn't change the actual console input code page. To change the console input code page, use the mode or chcp command.

  • Each exit code and a brief description of it:

    Exit code Description
    0 Character set was loaded successfully. No previous code page was loaded.
    1 An incorrect parameter was specified. No action was taken.
    2 A file error occurred.

  • You can use the ERRORLEVEL environment variable in a batch program to process exit codes that are returned by graftabl.

Examples

To view the current code page used by graftabl, type:

graftabl /status

To load the graphics character set for code page 437 (United States) into memory, type:

graftabl 437

To load the graphics character set for code page 850 (multilingual) into memory, type:

graftabl 850