# Unicode supported in Atom scripting window but not in REPL

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**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicode-supported-in-atom-scripting-window-but-not-in-repl/28939 "2019-09-19T08:55:02Z")\
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There are some efforts to solve this issues with the windows shells.  
As a workaround you may use the cygwin terminal which doesn’t help you as you do not know about, but there are others so don’t bother with cygwin 😀

> [@Usable shell on Windows (yay!)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/usable-shell-on-windows-yay/5988):
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> You might know about it already, but in case you don’t: the git bash is very usable with Julia. (The default on Windows is for Julia to run in a normal Windows terminal, which means the shell commands don’t work as expected.)

The git bash comes with the git windows GUI:

> **[Git - Downloading Package](https://git-scm.com/download/win)**

(just tried and \bfpartial works)

For the future there will be more general solutions (i hope), see for some ideas:

> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7267>
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> This seems like the nicest console emulator around on Windows:
> 
> ~~http://blike…r.github.io/cmder/~~
> ~~http://cmder.net~~
> https://mintty.github.io
> 
> I think it would make sense, since Windows is not really a DIY platform, but more of a download-and-use-the-thing-that-you-can-click-on platform, that we include a really nice console emulator for people to use.
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> EDIT: fixed link
> EDIT (@ViralBShah): mintty as the preferred choice

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