Is there any way to write Hebrew in the Windows Console?

Question

Is there any way to write Hebrew in the Windows Console?

I tried the following:

Console.OutputEncoding = new UTF8Encoding(false);
Console.WriteLine("\u05D0\u05D1");
Console.ReadLine();

but instead of "אב" it writes some other Unicode character, that're not in the Hebrew ABC.

Any ideas why?

Averyaveryl

Answer 1

If you can call chcp command before your program, you can change the codepage to Hebrew and then your characters will be readable. There is an interesting article about internationalization and windows console here: http://illegalargumentexception.blogspot.com/2009/04/i18n-unicode-at-windows-command-prompt.html

Laynelayney

ariely.info/Blog/tabid/83/EntryId/139/… chcp 862 and "courier new" – Naturalist

Answer 2

Simply change the OutputEncoding:

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1255");

Stines

Answer 3

        Console.OutputEncoding = new UTF8Encoding();
        Console.WriteLine("\u05D0\u05D1");
        Console.WriteLine("אריאל");
        Console.WriteLine(new string("אריאל".Reverse().ToArray()));

works for me, maybe is just about removing the "false"? this is working in my machine, except o.c. it writes the letters backwards, unless i use reverse

maybe you need to set the registry? run -> regedit and do this: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/technet/2013/06/11/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9A-%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A9%D7%A8-%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%91-powershell-console/

in the registry window rightclick choose new string.

Sinter

The above seems not to work in the current version of powershell. I get an error on the first line. – Grum

Answer 4

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the console supports UTF8.

Mcdade

Apparently it doesn't (see below). – Mcdade

The console has broken support for UTF-8. Windows has a codepage 65001 which you can set in the console via an API or from cmd by typing chcp 65001. However there is a bug in the Windows WriteFile() API when using this codepage which returns the number of Unicode characters written instead of the documented number of bytes written. If .net or C# compares this result to check if a write was successful then it will not work. This API bug is behind Perl, PHP, and Ruby not working under codepage 65001 and various problems in the Visual C runtime library. – Cluj

Answer 5

In case you just want it for short testing purposes and not to build an entire application, just use Debug.WriteLine that does support unicode (tested with heb chars only).

Tactile