ImageMagick Lacks Unicode Support??

[vimxts]

I'm using gm (a node JS library that can trigger GraphicsMahick and ImageMagick commands: http://aheckmann.github.io/gm/docs.html) and I'm experiencing the problem where I can't read filenames containing Chinese characters in Unicode, but I assume it can read Latin alphabets in Unicode, because some commands were passed through a web file encoded in UTF-8. I have to stress that I am not an expert in programming.

This is how the problem occur:
- Platform: Win10
- Installed version: ImageMagick-6.9.3-8-Q16-x64-dll.exe
- Problem persists with Command Prompt and Command Prompt inside Powershell.
- Command:

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convert -encoding unicode -identify 獅藝學會.jpg

I also have to clarify that I'm pretty sure that the "encoding" option is not supposed to be used this way.

This is what the Command Prompt returns exactly (it may contain 2 transparent Unicode characters):

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convert.exe: no images defined `獅藝學會.jpg' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3252.

[Jason S]

convert requires an output file, even with the -identify option. If you don't want that, try

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convert.exe 獅藝學會.jpg info:

or

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identify.exe 獅藝學會.jpg

ImageMagick on Windows can handle Unicode filenames on the command line. However, it does not correctly print Unicode to the console, so the filenames are garbled when it prints them.