Is this a bug with emojis or am I missing something?

[byte2pixel]

I'm wondering if this has something to do with build or optimizations or something but this is odd.

I wrote a little interactive Valentine's Day CLI for my wife, the emojis show up fine when running the application like this:

dotnet run -- poem

However, if I build debug, release, or publish etc. and then run from the exe:

program.exe poem

The emojis are just question marks.

In both cases, I am using the same terminal. Windows Terminal and pwsh.exe.

Example line of code:

AnsiConsole.MarkupLine(":rose: Let's build your poem!");

Example using dotnet run -- poem

Example after building and running the exe from the release folder:

Note same issues with mingw64/cmd.exe. The exe shows ?? for both and dotnet run shows the rose (but it is like an ascii looking one. not the full color ones like pwsh shows.

Should add this is with 0.49.1. I can try some other versions if there is something that may help. It doesn't matter to me I just used dotnet run when letting her see it and go through the various commands and interactive prompts.

[phil-scott-78]

You have powershell's encoding set properly?

https://spectreconsole.net/best-practices

[byte2pixel]

I looked it up and it does appear that the DOTNET cli does use UTF-8 when doing output. So I think that explains the behavior.

[phil-scott-78]

You can also set the output encoding on the console class, I bet they are doing that. Probably the best bet for your use case too

[byte2pixel]

My use case is over 🤣 I just got curious from earlier this afternoon when I was testing the "build your own poem" part. I noticed it. I should have put a bit more thought into it before posting. It makes sense now.

[phil-scott-78]

All good, quite rewarding to see this usage to be honest.

[byte2pixel]

I love Spectre.Console. I like working in the terminal and whenever I get a chance to build something that needs to be a CLI it's my go-to.
I experimented with System.CommandLIne when I first had to build something robust and didn't know about Spectre.Console. That tool I built is getting redone because it's starting to be used more by my team at work. I have now rebuilt it with Spectre.Console. ❤️