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Terminal based UI for Israeli public transit data
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Showing gibberish in Windows terminal #18

Closed tsehori closed 6 years ago

tsehori commented 6 years ago

Trying to curl through Windows cmd gives the following screen:

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I'm not sure if this issue is on my end or in the code. I would like some input on that, if possible.

The HTML-based terminal-like UI works well. Hebrew installed on the computer. Tested on Windows 10 Home.

elad661 commented 6 years ago

I think I can say Windows is not officially supported.

There are two issues here:

  1. Your terminal seems to be not configured for Unicode. I don't know if it's possible to configure the Windows terminal to properly display unicode text, but if it is - you should try that.
  2. Your terminal does not know how to handle ANSI color escape codes. I thought one of the recent big Windows 10 updates added support for that, but maybe they didn't - I don't know.

curlbus uses unicode and ansi color codes all over the place, so I can't just remove them. It's mainly built for people who use Linux or Mac, because people who use Windows don't usually have curl :)

If you want to use curlbus via curl on windows, you might need a better terminal emulator instead of cmd.exe

Out of curiosity, which Windows 10 build are you running? you can find out by running winver.exe

Closing this issue, as there's nothing I can do to fix it on my end.

tsehori commented 6 years ago

Thanks for replying so quickly! I tried playing around a bit with Windows command line and also the PowerShell, with no much success. I'm running version 1803 os build 17134.165. Will try a different terminal emulator. Thanks!