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Use proper Unicode output on CMD with Visual Studio Code

Open stefnotch opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I was writing a little application using Visual Studio Code on Windows 10. To get nicer graphics, I used Unicode characters such as . Then, I changed the terminal type in the launch.json file to "integrated". This causes the characters to become garbled for some reason. Setting the terminal to "external" also reproduces the same issue.

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Funnily enough, manually opening a cmd window and starting the program from there works flawlessly.

Describe the solution you'd like Something along the lines of https://stackoverflow.com/a/17177904/3492994

Describe alternatives you've considered in any Tell people to please not use a horribly outdated terminal

Sample project cross-unicode.zip

stefnotch avatar Oct 02 '21 09:10 stefnotch