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Subject:	Re: UTF-8 in Cygwin console on 1.7
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2009/12/8 Cliff Hones:
> Is UTF-8 character output fully supported in the standard Cygwin
> console ($TERM=cygwin) under Cygwin 1.7?

Yes (except it's limited to the Basic Multilingual Plane). You need to
select a Unicode-capable font in the console properties though.
Basically, anything but the default "Raster Font".

Andy

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