Do not display special characters in dos prompt

[anborg]

Expected: Not to display special characters when displaying json

Actual: Displays special characters.

No special characters with curl

[blyxxyz]

Ah, those are the colors. We should look for a way to detect when the terminal doesn't support them.

As a workaround you can disable colors completely by adding --pretty format.

Which version of Windows are you using? In newer versions ANSI colors should be turned on by default, I think. Maybe the instructions under "Enabling ANSI colors in older versions of Windows" on https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-ansi.html can fix it?

[ducaale]

Colors can also be disabled via the no_color env variable.

# current session only
set no_color=1   

# persist across sessions
setx no_color=1  

You could also use Windows Terminal which supports ANSI colors

[anborg]

Windows 10 - Pro

Interesting..

Windows Terminal, by default opened PoweShell tab which spewed error. Later I opened Dos inside it, no more special characters. Looks like I need to find a better terminal :)

Power shell ...

DOS... prompt?

[blyxxyz]

I think https://github.com/BurntSushi/termcolor might do the trick.

ripgrep uses it, so I'd be interested to know if it prints colors in the outdated DOS prompt that xh messes up. (If it just switches off colors then that would be progress too.)

[ducaale]

It seems ripgrep is able to output colors correctly in the old Windows Console

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Windows Terminal, by default opened PoweShell tab which spewed error.

Not sure why but I am able to run the xh that I installed with scoop in Powershell

[ducaale]

Hmm, this is interesting. So it seems colors work when xh is run via cargo

But not when the executable is run directly

[ducaale]

xh v0.9.1 has been released which improves color support in windows 🎉