Emoticons and colors are not displaying properly on Windows

[VeereshAradhya]

Version and Operating System

tkn Version:
Latest dev

Operating System:
Microsoft Windows-10 Enterprise(10.0.15063)

Expected Behavior

Emoticons and colors should display properly on Windows-10 machine

Actual Behavior

Emoticons and colors are not getting displayed properly on Windows-10 machine

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Create and start a task using tkn task start command
2. List the tasks using the command tkn task ls and observe the STATUS field
3. Describe the task using the command tkn task describe and observe the output

#Note:

1. The output for list and describe command looks fine when we use -C option

Additional Info

Screenshots for the output of list and describe are below

Tested with powershell, the emoticons in describe are not getting displayed properly but output of tkn tr ls looks fine

[piyush-garg]

/kind bug

[chmouel]

We probably should disable it if we are on windows

[VeereshAradhya]

Tested with powershell and updated the description

[ppitonak]

We probably should disable it if we are on windows

IMHO there should be a CLI switch for disabling it explicitly (+ disable by default on Win) because sometimes you don't want emoticons and color when exporting logs to external systems.

[chmouel]

if you do --nocolour it will disable emoticon as well....

And even tho if you do a redirection (i.e: not terminal stty) to a file the emoticons and colours will be disabled by default....

[chmouel]

@VeereshAradhya is it something you can do ? As I don't have a windows machine, I won't be able to fix it (but i can disable it if we run on windows)

[chmouel]

/assign

[chmouel]

@VeereshAradhya can you test https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IWYIMlwqTr4tCLiUAcTmB245h72-dM9d please ?

thanks!

[VeereshAradhya]

Tested the executable given by @chmouel . Both color and emoticons are disabled
Command Prompt:

Powershell