From eb4d9e9323ff0b9ae771937730876537f2788e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MAJigsaw77 <77043862+MAJigsaw77@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:13:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Patch `unicodes` not working properly on `Windows`

Co-Authored-By: Karim Akra <144803230+KarimAkra@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 project.hxp | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/project.hxp b/project.hxp
index ca58e0c70..28ebc3dae 100644
--- a/project.hxp
+++ b/project.hxp
@@ -531,6 +531,14 @@ class Project extends HXProject
   {
     super();
 
+    #if !target.unicode
+    if (isWindowsHost())
+    {
+      // Enable code page 65001 for unicode support
+      Sys.command("chcp 65001 > nul");
+    }
+    #end
+
     envConfig = readEnvironmentFile("./.env");
 
     flair();
@@ -956,16 +964,6 @@ class Project extends HXProject
     var unicodeCheck:String = "✓ ";
     var unicodeCross:String = "× ";
 
-    if (isWindowsHost())
-    {
-      #if (!target.unicode)
-      // lime build tools uses neko (unless compiling with `-eval`), and neko on windows doesn't support UTF8/unicode characters
-      // so we need to remove our cute emoji!
-      unicodeCheck = "o ";
-      unicodeCross = "x ";
-      #end
-    }
-
     for (flagStr in this.haxedefs.keys())
     {
       if (!flagStr.startsWith(FeatureFlag.INVERSE_PREFIX))