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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/08/2014 00:25, Andrew Berg wrote:
> 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/
>

*facepalm* forgot all about ConEmu, but then I only use it on a daily 
basis :)

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Mark Lawrence