Use international character encodings in Terminal on Mac

1. In the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal > Preferences, then click Profiles.

2. In the Profiles list, select a profile to modify.

3. Click Advanced.

4. In the International section, click the “Text encoding” pop-up menu, then choose a character encoding.

To use an encoding that isn’t shown in the pop-up menu, enable it in the Encodings pane of Terminal preferences.

Terminal comes with a common set of international character encodings enabled. If you want to use an encoding that isn’t shown in the window settings, you may need to enable it in the Encodings pane of Terminal preferences.

1. In the Terminal app on your Mac, choose Terminal > Preferences, then click Encodings.

2. Select checkboxes to enable the encodings you want.

3. To use the enabled encoding, click Profiles, then click Advanced.

4. In the International section, click the “Text encoding” pop-up menu, then choose a character encoding.