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[baterflyrity]

Hi! I'd like to use this library but unfortunately it does not work on my machine.

Can you please point out missing requirements or fix this bug?

[rsalmei]

Hi @baterflyrity,

That's weird since you seem to have a powerlevel prompt right in there!
Which font is your terminal using?
And which terminal is it? Perhaps the terminal does include its own set of powerlevel glyphs, but misses on other content... The usual fix for this is for you to install a nerdfont: https://www.nerdfonts.com/

[baterflyrity]

Hi! Thanks for reply.

My terminal characteristics are:
System: Windows 10
Shell: cmd.exe
Console: ComEmu
Terminal: Clink
Prompt: oh-my-posh
Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono
Encoding: 866 (and can not be changed since Windows)
Python encoding: utf8
Python version: 3.11

Hence I can not understand why some glyphs are show as ? symbol. Do you have any ideas on this?

[rsalmei]

Hi, wow... It's always windows that messes things up...
I don't have a windows development machine to test it, so unfortunately I don't know what else to suggest to you... 😞
I do have a workaround for windows in the code, and I'm not aware of any bugs in windows atm (people would have already reported any).

I'd like to ask you to try to figure it out, please, because it would help the community as a whole...
Here are the default spinner chars, you could try to copy them and try to print them in an ipython session: print('▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█').
Then play with the terminal font, python encoding, windows encoding, and whatever you can come up with, until these chars get printed correctly...
Thank you 👍

[baterflyrity]

Hello!
I've studied in details and figured out that this was my misconfiguration 😞. Actually ComEmu utilizes dedicated font for such symbols. Thus one has to just disable Alternate font checkbox or adjust it to Nerd Font etc.

All in all thanks for reply and sorry for bother)

[baterflyrity]

Well, unfortunately, this did not help in some cases:

@rsalmei , do you have another idea?

[rsalmei]

That's great! I'm glad you've made progress!
Well, I don't know what more you could try besides tweaking the font, but I think you should be at peace with it, it is working already!

In that "Display features" section you mentioned, I wanted to show my newest support for WIDE CHARS, which was very very hard to do since they should animate together with SINGLE CHARS like spaces. So, in there I use Emojis, which are very different Unicode chars that are WIDE, i.e. they occupy two columns on the screen. And perhaps your terminal doesn't even support them...
In any case, this is what should happen there:

Screen.Recording.2023-01-18.at.02.44.25.mov

[zooplibob]

I have the same issue on Windows. None of the spinners show up properly in the console window. Any idea how to fix this?
Jeff

[rsalmei]

Unfortunately, no. I do not have a windows machine for dev, so I can't test it.
But all linux environments should be perfectly supported, I mean macOS and windows wsl2.
Do you use WSL2?

[zooplibob]

We use this for our automated testers which only run Windows. It would be really great if you could provide a solution to this, as your library has the best feature set. Its just looks bad when the spinners are shown as ? blocks.

[rsalmei]

Sure, I understand.
Please, try to run it with classic spinner and bar. These won't use any fancy characters, so they should work now.

[zooplibob]

Yes I tried the classic ones and they seem to work. Sad not to be able to us the fancier ones though.