Characters don't work on Windows

[garfieldnate]

It appears that the unicode characters are not generated or recognized correctly on Windows.

I've opened a PR to add a GitHub action to build on Windows, Linux and Mac; the Windows build always fails, though, because the tables look like this:

    ?          compressed           ?          uncompressed          
        ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
APK      ? old       ? new       ? diff  ? old       ? new       ? diff   
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    dex ? 664.8 KiB ? 664.8 KiB ? -25 B ?   1.5 MiB ?   1.5 MiB ? -112 B 
    arsc ? 201.7 KiB ? 201.7 KiB ?   0 B ? 201.6 KiB ? 201.6 KiB ?    0 B 
manifest ?   1.4 KiB ?   1.4 KiB ?   0 B ?   4.2 KiB ?   4.2 KiB ?    0 B 
    res ? 418.2 KiB ? 418.2 KiB ? -14 B ? 488.3 KiB ? 488.3 KiB ?    0 B 
    asset ?       0 B ?       0 B ?   0 B ?       0 B ?       0 B ?    0 B 
    other ?  37.1 KiB ?  37.1 KiB ?   0 B ?  36.3 KiB ?  36.3 KiB ?    0 B 
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See build results here.

[garfieldnate]

All fixed in my PR ;) If you could let me know if you are able to merge and release it soonish that would be super helpful; otherwise I'll need to fork it to release the project I've been working on (or, of course, use a different table renderer... but I like this one:) ).

[garfieldnate]

I just realized that the issue is actually with the compilation of the test files; my test files also use the special non-ASCII characters, and setting the encoding correctly makes the tests pass on Windows. So I'm not blocked in any way by this ticket. I hope that it can still be a useful contribution for you. Thanks again for the amazing project! :)

[jakepurple13]

Any updates to this? I've recently ran into this too.

[garfieldnate]

@jakepurple13 If you're running into this while testing your own project, I would just set compileTestJava.options.encoding = "UTF-8". This will prevent the issue from affecting your tests, and you won't be dependent on picnic being updated/released.

[jakepurple13]

I'm trying to make a gradle plugin using this. And I'm also using gradle kts and couldn't find a way to set the compileTestJava one.

Edit:
I think I found a way to change it

tasks.withType<JavaCompile>().let {
    it["compileJava"].options.encoding = "UTF-8"
    it["compileTestJava"].options.encoding = "UTF-8"
}

But it's still not working.

[garfieldnate]

I'm sorry, I have no experience writing gradle plugins 🤷 . All my project required was this one simple line: https://github.com/garfieldnate/Weka_AnalogicalModeling/blob/master/build.gradle#L12