C# windows form cannot display simplified Chinese characters

Question

Somehow my previous question has been marked as duplicate.

Question:

I have a database with records in Chinese characters. I can take them out, and use them in button.Text.

However, when I use

Console.WriteLine(button.Text);

The output displays every Chinese character as a "?"

Now, why is the question NOT duplicate? I have THOROUGHLY searched for a solution, not just on stackoverflow, on everywhere I can search (with my limited skills). Read all those related posts. I found two potential solutions:

One: Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode; Unicode, UTF8, UT7, UTF32.

Two: Change my computer's locale in Control Panel to a region with Simplified Chinese. Then reboot and run the solution again.

I have tried both these suggested solutions, individually and together. Nothing works. The output changes from "?" to completely jibberish, unrecognizable characters.

Does anyone have any idea what to do here?

Answer 1

This is a more complete version of my comment. The way I was able to display Simplified Chinese characters was by changing the language of Non-Unicode programs to Chinese:

Then in the cmd properties set the font to Consolas

I didn't even need to set the Console.OutputEncoding. This is the result (these are Chinese characters copy/pasted from the internet):