display unicode (utf-8) files in Windows Console
Xah Lee
when i do
get-content some-utf8-file.txt
the unicode chars in that file displays as gibberish.
I did some search on window console, it seems it can display unicode
but didn't find the exact solution. The chars in question is chinese
chars and some math symbols. They display fine in IE and notepad.
the option -encoding for get-content seems to be output only.
Thanks.
Xah
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☄
Larry__Weiss
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/12/11/outputencoding-to-the-rescue.aspx
- Larry
Joel Bennett
though you can do whatever you want with them in scripts.
That's the main reason why the PowerShell team created ISE.
I don't know, off the top of my head, what the level of Unicode support
is in the third party consoles like PS+ or PowerGUI -- it should work ok
in my PoshConsole though ;)
--
Joel
Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote:
> How to display utf-8 encoded files in windows console?
On Jul 26, 12:37 pm, Larry__Weiss <l...@airmail.net> wrote:
> Maybe this article is related to that?
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/12/11/outputencoding-to-the-rescue.aspx
On Jul 26, 2:57 pm, Joel Bennett <Jay...@HuddledMasses.org> wrote:
> You can't. The console can't display most unicode characters, even
> though you can do whatever you want with them in scripts.
>
> That's the main reason why the PowerShell team created ISE.
>
> I don't know, off the top of my head, what the level of Unicode support
> is in the third party consoles like PS+ or PowerGUI -- it should work ok
> in my PoshConsole though ;)
Thanks a lot to both! That solved the problem.
In summary, set:
$OutputEncoding = New-Object -typename System.Text.UTF8Encoding
then, to display a utf-8 file, i do
get-content -encoding utf8 myfile.txt
Now, chinese shows as squares instead of gibberish. Some math symbols
shows correctly though.
After little research, i tried to set the console's font to Lucida
Console, still no go, even though the file displays fine in notepad
which uses Lucida Console.
But the Windows PowerShell ISE solves the problem! I'll be using ISE
now.
a little puzzle though... according to the blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/12/11/outputencoding-to-the-rescue.aspx
he seems to display chinese fine. Maybe the script output in the blog
is from ISE too.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
Xah Lee
> though you can do whatever you want with them in scripts.
>
> That's the main reason why the PowerShell team created ISE.
>
> I don't know, off the top of my head, what the level of Unicode support
> is in the third party consoles like PS+ or PowerGUI -- it should work ok
> in my PoshConsole though ;)
PowerShell ISE is so great, i'm now wondering, is there something
similiar for cmd.exe? that is, on machines that doesn't have
PowerShell installed and i have to use cmd.exe, is there a similar
console?
I searched for the ones you mentioned... They seem to be PowerShell
Larry__Weiss
alt.msdos.batch.nt
would know.
- Larry