Supplementary Multilingual Plane characters #470

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opened 2026-01-30 21:53:07 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Dec 8, 2018).

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (build 1809) is supposed to finally allow the
console to support SMP (4 byte) characters:

http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/11/15/windows-command-line

However in practice it is not working for me. I created a virtual machine:

http://microsoft.com/software-download/windows10ISO

and utilizing this character:

U+10480 OSMANYA LETTER ALEF
𐒀

http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/10480/index.htm

the output is 4 bytes 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x80, which is displayed as 2 invalid
characters U+D801 and U+DC80 (surrogate pair) rather than a single valid
character U+10480. Am I doing something wrong or is this still not supported by
Windows console?

Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Dec 8, 2018). Windows 10 October 2018 Update (build 1809) is supposed to finally allow the console to support SMP (4 byte) characters: http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/11/15/windows-command-line However in practice it is not working for me. I created a virtual machine: http://microsoft.com/software-download/windows10ISO and utilizing this character: U+10480 OSMANYA LETTER ALEF 𐒀 http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/10480/index.htm the output is 4 bytes 0xF0 0x90 0x92 0x80, which is displayed as 2 invalid characters U+D801 and U+DC80 (surrogate pair) rather than a single valid character U+10480. Am I doing something wrong or is this still not supported by Windows console?
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