Display formatting not correct when used on PowerShell

[Liampor]

Hello,

Problem

When I use TLDR on PowerShell, the output formatting is not correct, it looks like

Environment

PowerShell version 7.2.0 TLDR is installed via conda install tldr

$ tldr -v
>>> tldr 2.0.0 (Client Specification 1.4)

$ pip install tldr
>>> Requirement already satisfied: tldr in d:\tsusersoftware\miniconda3\lib\site-packages (2.0.0)
>>> Requirement already satisfied: argcomplete in d:\tsusersoftware\miniconda3\lib\site-packages (from tldr) (1.12.3)
>>> Requirement already satisfied: termcolor in d:\tsusersoftware\miniconda3\lib\site-packages (from tldr) (1.1.0)
>>> Requirement already satisfied: colorama in d:\tsusersoftware\miniconda3\lib\site-packages (from tldr) (0.4.4)

Others

TLDR works well on git-bash with the same installation and system

How could I fix it? Thank you all

[MasterOdin]

Are you able to change the following line:

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client/blob/d8722698284e5adde7fc561ea1c0b6ab114df528/tldr.py#L490

to be:

    colorama.init(strip=options.color, convert=True)

and see if that fixes the problem?

[MasterOdin]

Alternatively, we may need to adjust it so that we do a from sys import stdout after calling colorama.init() to get it to work on Windows. I'm not totally sure, hopefully the convert thing above works as that's easier to manage.

[Liampor]

Thanks, but I tried to modify the init-function and delete the local cache, but same issue again. 😂

Are you able to change the following line:

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client/blob/d8722698284e5adde7fc561ea1c0b6ab114df528/tldr.py#L490

to be:

    colorama.init(strip=options.color, convert=True)

and see if that fixes the problem?

[Liampor]

Update: I have installed Fluent Terminal now and still use PowerShell 7.0 as Shell, then the tldr could work as expected.

[God-damnit-all]

Until this is fixed, I came up with a little workaround that'll work on all consoles.

filter tldr {[String]::Join([Environment]::NewLine,( python -m tldr $Args ))}

You can also pipe to Write-Output for the same effect, but I felt it best to not involve a pipeline.

Question though, does tldr --help print out formatted text on Linux, like the npm version does? Or is this just something that was done for the Python client in general?