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Vassilis Barzokas
Vassilis Barzokas

Reputation: 3242

Mongo shell in Windows 7 "unicode text could not be correctly displayed"

I am using Windows 7 64 bit and I have English and Greek language installed for my keyboard. If I switch to mongo shell and I try to write a UTF Greek character, I get this error

"Unicode text could not be correctly displayed.
Please change your console font to a Unicode font (e.g. Lucida Console)."

and it exits from the mongo shell.

Also when I type db.names.find() it displays the contents of the names collection but the UTF characters are messed up.

I can write UTF characters in regular cmd prompt without problems.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 906

Answers (1)

Vassilis Barzokas
Vassilis Barzokas

Reputation: 3242

I solved this problem for my system by doing this procedure and changing font to Lucida Console. Before that it was set to Raster Fonts.

  1. Open cmd
  2. Right-click on the title bar
  3. Choose Properties
  4. Select the Font tab and from there choose the Lucida Console font and press ok.

Upvotes: 1

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