Working in console mode

You can use Installation Manager in console mode to manage installations. In console mode, select installation options from a command line. Not all products support console mode. Check your product documentation to determine whether console mode is supported.

When you use Installation Manager in console mode, some characters are shown as question marks instead of the character. The special characters include the copyright symbol and the trademark symbol. The character encoding and font on the computer are not set to show the special characters in console mode.

To work around this issue, change the code page identifier set in the command line properties.

For Windows:

  1. Determine the Microsoft Windows ANSI code page value for your language.
  2. On the command-line, enter chcp code_page where code_page is the value for the required language group.

    For example, for ANSI Latin 1 languages, enter the following command: chcp 1252

  3. Right-click the title bar of the command-line window and click Properties.
  4. On the Font tab, select Lucida Console.

For other operating systems, use the PuTTY program. To configure the PuTTY program:

  1. Click Window > Appearance > Change Font > Lucida Console (12 pt).
  2. Click Window > Translation > Character set translation > UTF-8.

For more information about managing installations in console mode, see the following topics: