# DataFrames unicode output disable?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491 "2020-04-30T16:41:18Z")\
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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:** [April 30, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/1 "2020-04-30T16:41:18Z")

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I use cygwin for most of my work and as an April fool’s joke, they decided to break unicode output in terminals (interestingly the cygwin shell terminal AND ALL the X-window terminals are broken, meaning it’s a top-level system problem). This used to work just fine. This has turned the println output of dataframes into garbage.

So unless somebody knows how to fixe unicode in cygwin I was hoping there might be a magic flag to create non-unicode output of DataFrames when using printlin.

Thanks.

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/2 "2020-04-30T17:25:58Z")

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oops. my apologies to the cygwin team… i just downloaded a UTF-8 test file with what I assume are unicode test symbols and it works flawlessly, and i see all sorts of interesting symbols being displayed correctly.

I did verify that everything displays correctly in a julia command shell.

so, at this point i’m pretty stuck. so annoying, I really like Julia’s unicode support 🙂

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/3 "2020-04-30T17:29:49Z")

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Sorry, I’m not quite following what the problem is. Could you post a screenshot?

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/4 "2020-04-30T17:36:00Z")

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This is what i get

1×3 DataFrame  
Γöé Row Γöé field1 Γöé field2 Γöé field3 Γöé  
Γöé Γöé String Γöé Int64 Γöé Float64 Γöé  
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ  
Γöé 1 Γöé foo Γöé 1 Γöé 3.0 Γöé

I’m quite sure this is neither a Julia or DataFrames problem, i’m just looking for a work-around. Even though it seems like cygwin is displaying unicode correctly i’m fairly certain this started after i upgraded cygwin. i know that it broke some things…

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/5 "2020-04-30T17:39:23Z")

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There isn’t an option to print without unicode characters. This is definitely frustrating though. Maybe use Jupyter?

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/6 "2020-04-30T17:57:50Z")

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yeah . it’s actually just become more than annoying.

i can’t actually figure out what some responses are, and so don’t know how to extract the information from them.

so the obvious answer is, turn it into something other than a dataframe.

There must be a way to turn the result into an array of arrays or array of named tuples, or sowething like that ?

Thanks!

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-unicode-output-disable/38491/7 "2020-04-30T18:18:47Z")

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aha. I forgot about this trick, x is a dataframe,

julia\> Array(x)  
2×2 Array{Tuple{Symbol,Int64},2}:  
(:foo, 1) (:foo, 1)  
(:bar, 10) (:bar, 10)

btw, notice that even printing out an array gives some strange glyphs at the start…😢

It used to work !!