Unicode in Console App - C#

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Unicode in Console App - C#

Shervan360 1,661

Hello,

I wrote a program to show UTF-16 emojis in Console App. When I ran the console app in PS from windows terminal, I can see emojis. But If I ran the program in PS without a windows terminal, I can't see it.
Please see:

Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;  

Console.WriteLine("\uD83D\uDE02");

Jack J Jun 25,296 Reputation points

2022-11-24T03:22:18.39+00:00

@Shervan360 , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, as others said, Console applications do not support Emojis. Since your new problem is related to powershell, I added windows-server-powershell tag, maybe there some professional will help you.

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Jack J Jun 25,296 Reputation points

2022-11-24T03:22:18.39+00:00

@Shervan360 , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, as others said, Console applications do not support Emojis. Since your new problem is related to powershell, I added windows-server-powershell tag, maybe there some professional will help you.

Answer 1

Karen Payne MVP 35,586 Volunteer Moderator

Console applications do not support Emojis. There are request to Microsoft back several years but nothing at this time.

LUCAS BENTO DOS SANTOS FERNANDES 0 Reputation points

2024-07-14T20:05:14.4666667+00:00

Olá Karen!!! Passando para atualizar que hoje funciona!!!

Answer 2

Lex Li (Microsoft) 6,037 Microsoft Employee

Actually what you observed is just one of main driving forces of Windows Terminal.

The legacy Windows command line (either command prompt or PowerShell console) is simply too old to support Unicode based output, as documented in https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/

So, as you found out, stick to Windows Terminal (or any other terminal with Unicode support) and that's your only option to see Unicode characters.

Shervan360 1,661 Reputation points

2022-11-23T14:20:58.397+00:00

Thanks, I ran my code in two Powershell with the same version. But the output is different.
Is there any difference between when we open Powershell from Windows Terminal or directly from Start menu?

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