Strange characters when running expecto's template project

[Kurren123]

Steps to reproduce

Go to a new folder

dotnet new -i Expecto.Template::5.0.0-beta1
dotnet new expecto
dotnet restore
dotnet build
dotnet run

Output

Strange characters are next to the last line:

[11:05:37 INF] EXPECTO! 8 tests run in 00:00:00.2364089 ÔÇô 2 passed, 1 ignored, 5 failed, 0 errored. ( Ó▓░ ─╣╠» Ó▓░Ó│â )

Screenshot:

System info

• Windows 10
• Dotnet version 1.0.0

[forki]

@haf calls that "spirit" and it's supposed to be something like an emoji / smiley. Unfortunately it often just looks weird. I tried to PR it out but @haf insisted it stays ;-(

[MNie]

@Kurren123 it's a rather related to encoding/font in your cmd?
@forki It's related to Expecto.Template I could remove this emoji / smiley from Expecto.Template samples file.

[vasily-kirichenko]

I'm also for removing this unicode noise. If not @forki I'd never recognized a smile there.

[Kurren123]

@MNie i don't think its related to the template because when I replace the tests with my own simple test I still get the issue

[forki]

@MNie no the template is unrelated nonsense ;-)

[Kurren123]

@MNie Is this a problem with my specific cmd? I'm guessing you can see the smiley on linux but not windows

[forki]

@Kurren123 yes there are situations where the console shows the intended chars, but even then some peope (like me) can't see that it is supposed to be a smiley.

[MNie]

@MNie no the template is unrelated nonsense ;-)
@forki I looked at first at steps to reproduce my mistake ;)

[forki]

@MNie I was obviously joking a bit, but I'd prefer we remove spritis from templates and product

[haf]

@Kurren123 There are UTF8 capable terminals in the world, even on Windows. The spirit is this one:

ᕙ໒( ˵ ಠ ╭͜ʖ╮ ಠೃ ˵ )७ᕗ

[forki]

doesn't look any different to me.

[haf]

There are arms at the start and end and a monocle on the right eye?

[forki]

and a bit of snot in the nose?

[Kurren123]

@haf yes the command prompt is pretty basic so it's a good idea to use something else. However the same bug appears on the terminal within vscode also:

I actually like the smiley, it's just the jumbled characters that look messy

[haf]

@Kurrren123 – that's a bug in VSCode and/or the terminal emulator it uses.

[adamchester]

I haven't dug into this yet, but this recent change might be related bc3a172#diff-312b950ecb6e71200586b2408ab6e821R643