Characters dont display in wsl

[borcherspm]

Describe the bug The checkbox(on/off) do not display properly in windows subsystem for linux(ubuntu). You just see the symol that is used when a character cannot be displayed.

To Reproduce Install in wsl(window subsystem for linux) Add task run tb

Expected behavior I should see checkbox

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Technical Info (please complete the following information)

• OS: windows 10, wsl(ubuntu)
• Node.js Version: 10.4.1
• Taskbook Version: 0.1.1

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[kalexmills]

FWIW, it works in Powershell.

[borcherspm]

It does work in powershell. And git bash as well. Although it defaults back to basic characters so you don't get the nice looking checkbox, ect.

[kalexmills]

Even in powershell, seems that the star character (U+2605) won't display properly.

Seems that a solution will still need to know whether a terminal supports unicode. This npm package might help.

If the terminal doesn't support unicode, a replacement ASCII character could be used. I vote using * in place of ★

[rjoydip-zz]

@kalexmills Could you make a PR for this?

[borcherspm]

How do go about testing it locally? I cloned the fork/branch. But how do i run the taskbook commands?

[kalexmills]

For me, working on powershell, running npm install from the project root directory will install taskbook. I can then access the command using tb as usual.

[borcherspm]

That doesn't seem to work. I think it's using the global taskbook.

[kalexmills]

You could try a global install, but you'll need to replace it with the original version afterwards.

You can test by editing the version in package.json, installing, and then running tb --version and see if the version output by taskbook changes.

K. Alex Mills

[kutne]

I'm having the same issue. I change the font for my Linux subsystem shell to Lucida Console, and that SORT of helped in that instead of getting the question mark in a box now I just get these ☐. Overall I don't mind that since they are still color coded appropriately, but it is causing other issues. For instance tb -clear doesn't work and my guess is b/c it doesn't think it has found the correct character to trigger correctly

[JDRanpariya]

use cascadia code pl font that would do the job! ( in settings.json of windows terminal if you are using that)