Icons rendering/showing properly in VSCode integrated terminal, but not in standalone PowerShell

[tusan-tsvetkoff]

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🎯 Subject of the issue

Experienced behavior: Running ls inside VsCode's integrated terminal:

Running ls inside my PowerShell (in the same directory):

I should also note that nvim's webdevicons are having the same behavior in Neovim, as in, not displaying properly (<?> instead of that actual glyph/icon).

What I've concluded is that it seems to be related to all the md glyphs. I've also made sure to update oh-my-posh, as well as running this command oh-my-posh config migrate glyphs --write

Expected behavior:

Ideally, the '<?>' icons in PowerShell should be whatever they are in VsCode's integrated terminal, which is also running PowerShell as far as I am concerned.

Example symbols:

From PowerShell: 󰪷 README.md 󰙨 tests <- directory

From VsCode's terminal: 󰪷 README.md 󰙨 tests

🔧 Your Setup

• Which font are you using (e.g. Anonymice Powerline Nerd Font Complete.ttf)?
  • JetBrainsMonoNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf
  • Due to the fact I am running on Windows 10 and have no access to settings.json, this is how it appears inside my Properties selection:
    
  • Inside VsCode I simply set the integrated terminal's font family to JetBrains Nerd Font Mono
• Where did you get the file from (download link, self patched, source downloaded from link...)
  • Latest stable release
• Which terminal emulator are you using (e.g. iterm2, urxvt, gnome, konsole)?
  • Windows Terminal(?), PowerShell 7.3.8
• Are you using OS X, Linux or Windows? And which specific version or distribution?
  • Windows 10

★ Screenshots (Optional)

From within PowerShell:

Properties:

[tusan-tsvetkoff]

Apparently I am a bit of an idiot. Had never installed the Windows Terminal from the Windows Store. Installed it and fixed all my issues.

[Finii]

The non-WindowsTerminal terminals (i.e. cmd and the like) are not able to display 5 digit unicode codepoints, due to the software design. Microsoft uses UTF16 internally (instead of the now ubiquitous UTF8) but only 1 wchar_t value per character, so ...

A nice explanation can be found here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-unicode-and-utf-8-output-text-buffer/

The way to go is to use Windows Terminal (as you found out), the modern alternative.

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