On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 21:06, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM Dan Shelton via Cygwin
> <cygwin@cygwin.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)

Windows 10 with UTF-8 locale

Dan
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