Unicode characters in Windows cmd

[henry]

I'm not sure if this is a bug report or user error.

When setting a field via Windows cmd where the text includes a non-ASCII unicode character, exiftool does not properly handle the input.

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C:\Users\henry>exiftool -ImageDescription image.jpg
Image Description               : happy ??


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Image Description               : Cent ó

Is there something I need to do to get exiftool to accept Unicode characters?

I'm using exiftool 12.98 on Windows 11 24H2. As far as I can tell, the Windows cmd shell supports Unicode characters just fine (if I run"ECHO 😀", I get the same emoji back.)

[Phil Harvey]

FAQ 10 and FAQ 18 explain this issue in detail.

- Phil