ast layers display as 'X' on Windows

[tpsteiner]

'X' makes it hard to read. The blocks on linux/mac looks much better. I think the windows font problem was recently fixed in the skimr package.

Edit: Here is the skimr code to fix windows unicode https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr/blob/master/R/utils.R

[hadley]

Can you please explain the problem?

[tpsteiner]

The node output shape on Windos OS was "X", now it is "o". The block shape character is used on mac and linux OS. It's not much of a problem now though, just inconsistent output between operating systems.

Here's a reprex with the updated "o" shape:

lobstr::ast(25 + 30 * 2)
#> o-`+` 
#> +-25 
#> \-o-`*` 
#>   +-30 
#>   \-2

[hadley]

That's because windows can't reliably display non-ASCII characters