Printing Unicode characters to the PowerShell prompt

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This is not a PowerShell deficiency. It is a deficiency with the Windows console subsystem which PowerShell.exe uses. The console subsystem does not support Unicode but code pages instead which dates back to the DOS days. The PowerShell V2 fix is provided via the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment or PowerShell_ISE.exe. This is a graphical app based on WPF which can handle Unicode characters easily.

In theory you could change the code page using chcp or 

[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(850)

to display different characters but I haven’t had much luck with this. You’d also need to find a code page that contains the character you want to display.

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