cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters

[Andrew Berg]

On 2014.08.03 18:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The best way to do it is to use the Unicode codepage, but cmd.exe just
> plain has issues. There are underlying Windows APIs for displaying
> text that have problems with astral characters (I think that's what it
> is), so ultimately, you're largely stuck.
That is not quite true. The terminal has these issues, not the shell. Using
cp65001 does make Unicode in a Windows terminal possible, but using a better
terminal[1] makes it almost perfect (my experience has been that input can be
difficult, but output works well). I personally have used an IRC bot written in
Python with logging output containing Unicode characters that display just fine
(both locally and over SSH).

[1] I recommend ConEmu: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/