(Writing this down so I can google it when I inevitably forget about it in the future)
Powershell supports Unicode in a custom prompt, but if it’s coming out garbled, then you probably forgot to save your profile.ps1 as UTF-8 WITH BOM.
This is UTF-8 (no BOM):
This is is UTF-8 w/ BOM:
Nice.
(BTW, the code for this custom prompt is here)
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I discovered a couple stupid bugs right after I posted 2.5, so here’s a quick 2.6 update to resolve them.
Version 2.6.1837.1459 (February 14, 2010)Bugs Fixed:– Fixed a discrepancy between value data types when saving to a .reg file vs saving to the registry when changing a context menu item name.– DDE Message was not deleted if the program was running with elevated privileges.– File type icon would sometimes not be detected correctly when the icon source was the default program.Crashes Fixed:– Deleting a context menu item would sometimes result in a crash.– Inputting invalid character for context menu item name sometimes caused a crash.– In some cases, opening the autoplay handlers page for some media types caused a crash.– Saving context menu changes after editing a command label (including implicit edits) caused a crash.