New Windows command-line?

[Phil Harvey]

A few years ago, Windows 10 apparently added a Linux command line feature:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash

and last year they announced a new Windows command-line app:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool

I haven't used either, but I wonder if maybe there is hope for one of these to provide a work-around for the long-standing Windows Unicode filename problem.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

After many annoyances (had to do an hour long Windows update and had to reinstall the Windows Store ), I got this working.  The Terminal itself is just a wrapper for PowerShell, CMD, and anything else you want to edit the settings to add.  Still has the problems PS has with corrupting binary output that's piped or redirected.

The CMD has problems dealing with emoji and is hit or miss with displaying them.  I tried setting Description to € and some emojis and the output was odd.



A different problem, tried pasting some emojis into this post but got a error from it
"The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
The message body was left empty."

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks for trying this. Sounds like a lot of work for unfortunately no positive results.  It is a pity that they didn't provide an improved command processor.

About the forum emoji problem.  I don't see any error messages in the forum logs, so I don't know what could have happened there.

- Phil