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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:04:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: mintty in Cygwin 3.6.4 cannot display the moon
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From: Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM Dan Shelton via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> mintty in Cygwin 3.6.4 cannot display the Unicode moon character:
> my testcase:
> bash -c 'm="$(printf "\U0001f313")" ; echo "moon2" >"$m$m$m$m$m$m$m"'
> ls -l
>
> That should display a filename with los of Unicode moon characters,
> but instead some grey checkerbox is rendered. Windows Explorer shows
> this correctly.

eos:~/cygtest >ls
eos:~/cygtest >m="$(printf "\U0001f313")"
eos:~/cygtest >echo $m
\U0001F313
eos:~/cygtest >echo asdf > $m.txt
bash: \U0001F313.txt: Permission denied
eos:~/cygtest >echo asdf > $m$m
bash: \U0001F313\U0001F313: No such file or directory
eos:~/cygtest >echo asdf > "$m$m"
bash: \U0001F313\U0001F313: No such file or directory

What are your locale and language environment set to?   (LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL, LANG)

Kevin

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