Cygwin terminal not displaying some encoding characters

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.