Terminal: Unicode characters not rendering properly via WSL
Your Windows build number: 10.0.18277.1000
What you're doing and what's happening:
Attempting to view the contents of a UTF-8 file via WSL does not show the contents of the file.
- Create a new file on Linux with UTF-8 characters, such as: 国際
- Within WSL, attempt view file using vi. Question mark characters will be shown instead.
- What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
When using vi, expecting to see 国際. Note this problem reproduces with a local file to WSL as well as over an ssh connection. Characters show properly when using PuTTy.
wkbrd
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Is this unique to WSL, or does this issue also repro in a normal cmd/powershell window?
zadjii-msft
on 12 Nov 2018
Same behavior in WSL and PowerShell.
This is most likely caused by a combination of the following:
- The glyph for the characters in question likely not available in the currently selected font (Consolas)
- Because Console uses GDI to render text, and since GDI does not support font-fallback (a mechanism for dynamically finding and loading a font that does contain the required glyph), Console is unable to render the requested glyph.
We are very aware of this limitation (e.g. see #190) and are working on a set of changes to remedy this issue in a future OS release.
bitcrazed
on 12 Nov 2018
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I'm going to close this as a dupe of #190 then.
zadjii-msft
on 12 Nov 2018
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Same behavior in WSL and PowerShell.
This is most likely caused by a combination of the following:
We are very aware of this limitation (e.g. see #190) and are working on a set of changes to remedy this issue in a future OS release.