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+#### running the console on windows
+
+The console uses the UTF-8 character set to display graphs and other visual
+features in the terminal. In order to display this rich terminal UI on Windows,
+it's necessary to use a UTF-8-enabled terminal emulator, such as the new
+[Windows Terminal](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install).
+
+If you're using a terminal that supports UTF-8, make sure to explicitly call
+tokio-console with the UTF-8 language flag set: 
+```
+tokio-console --lang en_US.UTF-8
+```
+
 ## for development
 
 the `console-subscriber/examples` directory contains **some potentially useful

tokio-console/README.md

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 See [here][cli-ref] for a complete list of all command-line arguments.
 
-Tokio Console has a numnber of different views:
+Tokio Console has a number of different views:
 * [Tasks List](#tasks-list)
 * [Task Details](#task-details)
 * [Resources List](#resources-list)
 * [Resource Details](#resource-details)
 
+#### running the console on windows
+
+The console uses the UTF-8 character set to display graphs and other visual
+features in the terminal. In order to display this rich terminal UI on Windows,
+it's necessary to use a UTF-8-enabled terminal emulator, such as the new
+[Windows Terminal](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install).
+
+If you're using a terminal that supports UTF-8, make sure to explicitly call
+tokio-console with the UTF-8 language flag set: 
+```
+tokio-console --lang en_US.UTF-8
+```
+
 ### Tasks List
 
 When the console CLI is launched, it displays a list of all [asynchronous tasks]