Unable to redirect output to file

[84961]

Information

• OS: [eg Windows/Linux/MacOS]
• Version: [e.g. 0.33.0]
• Terminal: [e.g Windows Terminal]

Describe the bug Trying to run the console app and redirect the output to file consoleapp.exe > dump.ansi

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior.

Expected behavior should be able to view the file in powershell using type dump.ansi -Encoding oem

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[patriksvensson]

Looks like your terminal doesn't support ansi escape codes or the encoding you've selected messes something up. I'm afraid this is outside the scope of the project.

[ap0llo]

I think I have run into the same issue.

I can reproduce encoding errors on Windows in both the old terminal (ConHost) and Windows Terminal when the shell is Windows Powershell (powershell.exe), on newer versions of Powershell (pwsh.exe) everything seems to be working fine.

I think this is related to the encoding used by Powershell.

A workaround is, setting the console encoding before running the tool that uses Spectre.Console:

[Console]::InputEncoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding