unicode characters are not printed correctly on the windows command line?

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 22 December 2019 at 06:25:42 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 22/12/2019 7:11 PM, moth wrote:


>
>> is there any function i can call or setting i can adjust to 
>> get D to do the same, or do i have to wait for something to be 
>> fixed in the language / compiler itself?
>> 
>
> Not a bug. This is a known issue on the Windows side for people 
> new to developing natively for it.

Yes, and it's not just D programs. And setting the code page 
isn't always perfect, as it matters which font cmd is configured 
to use. Google for "windows command prompt unicode output".

MS has updated the command prompt to support Unicode, but I don't 
know how to use it:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/

If you're on Windows 10, there's also Windows Terminal, which was 
released on the app store in June:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-7-release/