Progress Bar on Powershell does not looking well

[toshiro92]

Hi !

I am currently working with Powershell command line on Windows 10, and I've seen that the minibar characters used does not seems to be working well, as it can be seen below:

Is there anything to deal with ? Like install or change a font ?

Note: I've used the below template:
{i}/{total} {bar} {elapsed}s {eta}

[refi64]

You need to enable ANSI color codes. Try something like:

#include <Windows.h>

int main() {
  HANDLE console = GetStdConsole(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  DWORD mode;
  GetConsoleMode(console, &mode);
  mode |= ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING;
  SetConsoleMode(console, mode);
  // ...
}

Note that this only works on Windows 10.

Of course, you also need to handle any errors from these functions. You can see their documentation online (try Googling their names) for more info.

You can also instead enable it globally on your system on Windows 10, pipe the output of your program to Out-Host (.\myprogram | Out-Host), or on earlier Windows version, you can install ansicon.

[toshiro92]

Ok great, thank you for this tip. I've tried the global method on my system through the Registry. However, there is still the character used by the minibar which does not seems to be recognized:

[canassa]

My understanding of Windows terminals is very minimal, how does Powershell handle UTF-8 characters?