# Cygwin not displaying graphic characters correctly

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-not-displaying-graphic-characters-correctly/38991>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-not-displaying-graphic-characters-correctly/38991 "2020-05-07T22:18:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![purplishrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/purplishrock/32/13451_2.png) [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-not-displaying-graphic-characters-correctly/38991/1 "2020-05-07T22:18:36Z")

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This post will have a very small audience, but that audience will be very interested 🙂

So i upgraded my cygwin and it broke character display in the julia repl. What was particularly annoying is that the dataframe print outs were now a collection of garbage.

A kind soul on the cygwin mailing list suggested _downgrading_ the “cygwin” package, it’s a package accessible from the main installer in the base category, to version 3.07.

Problem solved.

edit: i should add that this fixes the character display in mintty AND the x-window terminals.

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**Author:** ![purplishrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/purplishrock/32/13451_2.png) [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-not-displaying-graphic-characters-correctly/38991/2 "2020-08-25T01:51:11Z")

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Unfortunately I was forced to upgrade cygwin and now terminal display of characters is broken again. here for example is my attempt to display ‘pi’.

```julia
julia> 'π'
'π': Unicode U+03C0 (category Ll: Letter, lowercase)

```

it appears correctly in the julia shell of course. I was hoping that maybe someone else had run across this and could suggest some things to try.

I’ve tried a great many things, including changing character encoding and fonts and have not had any luck.

Any ideas ?