Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 debug Console cannot display correctly chinese

Question

I really didn't expect that the visual studio 2022 version could not display Chinese correctly! I used JetBrains Rider before. It has a built-in console. When running, it will always display Chinese correctly, just like VSCode's built-in terminal.

I know it must be because the character code the code is running on doesn't match the terminal's settings. But this should not be manually modified by the user. . .

my code:

Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
// here does not work
// output: ??,??!
Console.WriteLine("你好，世界！");

output:

extra information：

• my operating system: windows 10
• windows terminal as defautl terminal
• Visual Studio uses "windows console host" as the default console, it doesn't seem to support utf-8. (I have set windows terminal as default terminal)
• When I set the default terminal to "Windows Console Host", right-click to view the character encoding of the terminal:

Maybe replacing the default console of visual studio with powershell can solve the problem?

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thank you all

Answer 1

I found a temporary solution (as one line of code needs to be added):

In my case (windows 10), Visual Studio uses a console called "Windwos Console Host" as the default terminal, which doesn't seem to support utf-8

because when I added the following code:

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

the Chinese output changed from "question mark" to "strange symbols", so I deduce that the terminal used by Visual Studio Debug Console probably does not support UTF-8:

So I changed the default terminal to "windows terminal" in the settings of "windows terminal":

This time successfully printed Chinese ("windows terminal" must support utf-8):