On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM Dan Shelton via Cygwin <[email protected]> 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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
