Unicode characters not rendering properly in WSL about sampler HOT 6 CLOSED

@bakeiro: If you're willing to try another terminal emulator, I've had pretty good luck using Windows Terminal with Courier New or Consolas (the font used by the default Ubuntu terminal). Aside from bar charts, everything looks fine in cmder (takes a little more setup to get WSL working) if you can't use Windows Terminal.

Here's a screenshot of Sampler running in Windows Terminal with Courier New:

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Hi @bakeiro,
Could you please attach a screenshot and you config file?

Thank you.

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Sure!
img: https://imgur.com/a/QiUrVD3
config (it's your example config, so I guess has nothing to do but here it is)

Config

runcharts:

• title: Search engine response time
  rate-ms: 500 # sampling rate, default = 1000
  scale: 2 # number of digits after sample decimal point, default = 1
  legend:
  enabled: true # enables item labels, default = true
  details: false # enables item statistics: cur/min/max/dlt values, default $ items:
  • label: GOOGLE
    sample: curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://www.google.com
    color: 178 # 8-bit color number, default one is chosen from a pre-defi$ - label: YAHOO
    sample: curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://search.yahoo.com
  • label: BING
    sample: curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://www.bing.com

sparklines:

• title: CPU usage
  rate-ms: 200
  scale: 0
  sample: ps -A -o %cpu | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
• title: Free memory pages
  rate-ms: 200
  scale: 0
  sample: memory_pressure | grep 'Pages free' | awk '{print $3}'

barcharts:

• title: Local network activity
  rate-ms: 500 # sampling rate, default = 1000
  scale: 0 # number of digits after sample decimal point, default = 1
  items:
  • label: UDP bytes in
    sample: nettop -J bytes_in -l 1 -m udp | awk '{sum += $4} END {print sum}'
  • label: UDP bytes out
    sample: nettop -J bytes_out -l 1 -m udp | awk '{sum += $4} END {print sum}'
  • label: TCP bytes in
    sample: nettop -J bytes_in -l 1 -m tcp | awk '{sum += $4} END {print sum}'
  • label: TCP bytes out
    sample: nettop -J bytes_out -l 1 -m tcp | awk '{sum += $4} END {print sum}'

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Oh, I see what are you talking about.

I'm afraid it's not something we can fix on the Sampler's side. As far as I can see, currently WSL has issues with unicode characters rendering - there is no font-fallback support there.

microsoft/terminal#306
microsoft/terminal#190

Since font-fallback is not available, you might still have a font which supports currently used characters, you can try to find it manually

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Closing, since the solution is found and we can't see how it can be fixed on Sampler's side

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Closing, since the solution is found and we can't see how it can be fixed on Sampler's side

Thanks for the answer. I checked some more system on WSL everything repeats . May report to https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues ?

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