Unicode to the Windows Console

Spent a lot of time refreshing my memory of Unicode this evening, trying to figure out how to get Unicode in Java to appear properly in the Windows console.

Apparently, native calls to the Windows subsystem are suggested as the best way, but how can this be a good thing for a write-once, run-anywhere language?

Running "chcp 65001" to select the Unicode code page for the console, and then executing the Java code as "java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 class" barfs all over my screen. The Unicode character I want to print comes out OK, but the rest seems broken.

UPDATE:

Apparently this works:

System.console().writer().print("\u2591");
System.console().writer().flush();

UPDATE #2:

OK, this only works for code page #437. o_O Time to call it a night. Will attempt to print my character tomorrow: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2591/index.htm

UPDATE #3:

This link was informative: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272032/java-utf-8-strange-behaviour . Perhaps it is because I am encoding some values and not others?