Reputation: 179
Cygwin terminal does not display some characters such as Arabic (with the encoding Windows-1256 and ISO-8859-6). It shows only punctuation and numbers!
Upvotes: 7
Views: 4161
Reputation: 585
I've ran into this.
Firstly ensure that the language is installed in your operating system. Then right click on the terminal > options > text, set the encoding, locale and a font that you know works for your language. This should ensure that the correct characters output in the cygwin terminal.
Upvotes: 6