There is an issue using Get-WslDistribution

[patrick330602]

It seems that it has trouble displaying the distribution properly:

I am using Windows 10 build 17134.5 right now.

[TylerLeonhardt]

Thanks for this! This is likely a dupe of #12... Are you using Windows PowerShell? If you run:

$a = wslconfig /l
$a

does it look funky?

[patrick330602]

@tylerl0706 Yep, it looks like there are spaces between each character

[TylerLeonhardt]

Yeah - If you try it on PSCore, it should be better. The problem is this line:

https://github.com/tylerl0706/PSWsl/blob/master/PSWsl.psm1#L160

Which works on PSCore but not Windows PowerShell :(

I'll dupe my issue to yours since you have an image :)

[patrick330602]

Well, find a way which (kind of) works:

the code is here:

[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes((wslconfig.exe /l))) -split '\s\s+' | Select-Object -Skip 1 -Unique

[patrick330602]

I will close this as it is merged