Multi Commander Support Forum
Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: milen-prg on January 10, 2026, 19:31:53
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I tried different fonts, but SOME filenames are not displayed properly, many even japan or even non letters symbols are displayed in some fonts, but some other - not.
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MC is build with unicode support and is using unicode for all text.
I don't know why it does not work for you.
Is it only some places that does not work or everywhere?
I seen Japanese and Chinese screenshot of MC, So it should be able to render it.
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Just an example filenames properly displayed in the native Windows 11 File Explorer and not in the Multi Commander (default font Segoe UI).
As I could attach the files here I copy the names (in the Browser are OK):
TRY3 ПРИМЕР ты ⧸ Za.txt - not showed properly in MC
TRY2 ПРИМЕР 🎸💝 Эта .txt - not showed properly in MC
TRY1 ПРИМЕР (강남스타일) ❤️.txt - this Multi commander shows OK
And the most mysterious is that result varies in dependence what is the symbols arrangement in the name, also how long is the name (because it zooms out to have place in the cell), what font is set, etc. Even sometimes the name is displayed empty!
Like using byte strings for unicode and are not aligned to codesymbol every time. I don't know.
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I don't know why you get this. There is not much that MC can do. Everything in windows is Unicode (UTF32). MC do not do any own processing of the characters.