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Asked: 2026-05-24T23:45:44+00:00

I’m writing a console app that needs to print some atypical (for a console

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I’m writing a console app that needs to print some atypical (for a console app) unicode characters such as musical notes, box drawing symbols, etc.

Most characters show up correctly, or show a ? if the glyph doesn’t exist for whatever font the console is using, however I found one character which behaves oddly which can be demonstrated with the lines below:

Console.Write("ABC");
Console.Write('♪'); //This is the same as: Console.Write((char)0x266A);
Console.Write("XYZ");

When this is run it will print ABC then move the cursor back to the start of the line and overwrite it with XYZ. Why does this happen?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The console doesn’t use Uncode, so the characters has to be translated to an 8-bit code page. The ♪ character is converted to the character with code 13 (hex 0x0d), which is CR or Carrage Return.

    In most code pages, for example code page 850, the CR chararacter glyph resembles a quarter note, and the 266a character is specified as the Unicode equivalent.

    However, if you write the CR character to the console, it will not display the quarter note glyph, instead it is interpreted as the control character CR which moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.

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