Emoji don't display properly

I have a command line app that outputs warnings using ⚠ - this fails on pwsh 6.1 beta.

Steps to reproduce

echo ⚠

Expected behavior

⚠

Actual behavior

[?][?]

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.1.0-preview.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    v6.1.0-preview.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17672
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

[cawoodm]

I cannot get any emojis out on powershell (5) regardless of which terminal I use. NodeJS applications do show them and even the VSCode editor of my PowerShell shows them so I think it’s a PowerShell issue.

[CEbbinghaus]

@cawoodm Sorry to reply to such a old thread but this might be something others find useful too. For Powershell 5.1 to print emoji’s that are hard coded into the text file e.g

echo "Done ✅"

you have to save the file with UTF8-BOM encoding. For some reason it doesn’t pick up on the UTF8 unless it has the BOM whereas newer versions of PowerShell automatically detect any UTF8.

Hope this helps someone with the same problem I had.