How do I get MinTTY working with UTF8

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I am using msys mintty on vista.

My font is Deja Vu Sans Mono, which has excellent unicode coverage.

The simplest test is to just cat this file: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt all non-ascii characters show up as boxed questionmarks.

I have explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8 in mintty's settings.

Similarly pasting non-ascii text into mintty gives me garbage. What's going on? Everything I can find tells me that mintty should support unicode just fine.

Jason

Posted 2013-11-28T03:36:37.277

Reputation: 161

Answers

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MinTTY supports UTF-8 but MSys does not. The Cygwin build of MinTTY solved my problem.

Jason

Posted 2013-11-28T03:36:37.277

Reputation: 161

In 2018, the mintty that comes with git for 64-bit windows mintty 2.9.1 (x86_64-pc-msys) DOES support the unicode character I wanted to display: ⬢. The version I installed in 2017 mintty 2.7.3 (x86_64-pc-msys) did NOT. – daveloyall – 2018-10-22T20:17:58.000

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