"rustlings" command output is unreadable when run in Windows 7 cmd

[TobiasWehrum]

Hello,

I've just installed rustlings according to the Windows instructions. When I execute rustlings, here is what I see:

I've also tried running it in bash and powershell with the same result.

[TobiasWehrum]

Alright, so what I believe to be ANSI escape sequences show up correctly in ANSICON. That's not perfect (I'd much rather use the CMD), but at least I can use it now.

[TobiasWehrum]

A few steps further down the line: Running ansicon -i apparently patches my system so that cmd.exe also supports the ANSI escape sequences now. I'm happy with that result.

For other people running Windows 7 it might help to either investigate how to display it properly without installing/running anything (this StackOverflow answer suggests it's possible with C) or to add a note to the readme that they might want to download and run ansicon with the -i flag if the rustlings output looks all jumbled up.

[komaeda]

i would classify this as a bug if it doesn't run correctly on an unmodified windows version

[komaeda]

if anyone who runs windows could help me debug this, that'd be appreciated!

[TobiasWehrum]

Ready! What do you need?

[TobiasWehrum]

Oh, unless you need that person to actually know anything about Rust as opposed to e.g. execute and try things for you. I'm a complete newbie.

[komaeda]

@TobiasWehrum i've been wanting to remove the weird formatting anyways because it would eliminate a dependency and right now it just looks nice and nothing else. i'll ping you when i have a working build of that so you can try it out for me!

[barkdoll]

Windows 10 x64 => also having the same issue with the output

I will give you any information to assist with the fix just let me know what you need.

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