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Terminal Emulator for Android (as of 1.0.33) has partial Unicode UTF-8 support.

Unicode is a standard for encoding all the world's written languages.

UTF-8 is a character encoding that encodes Unicode characters into a byte stream that is compatible with 7-bit ASCII.

Enabling UTF-8 Support

Menu -> Preferences -> Enable UTF-8 Support Then reset your terminal: Menu -> More -> Reset Term

Disabling UTF-8 Support

Menu -> Preferences -> uncheck Enable UTF-8 Support Then reset your terminal: Menu -> More -> Reset Term

What works

  • Single-character UTF-8 characters
  • East-Asian scripts (Japanese, Chinese, Korean)
  • Some form, line-drawing, math, currency characters

What doesn't work

  • Combining diacritical marks.
  • Right-to-left characters (e.g. Middle-Eastern languages.)
  • Characters like Brail that are not present in the Android fonts.