Windows - ? instead of codestarts icons when generating project

[rsvoboda]

Running https://quarkus.io/guides/getting-started#bootstrapping-the-project on Windows 10

There are ? instead of codestarts icons when generating project, tried with cmd and poweshell

Expected to see something like this:

[ghost]

/cc @ia3andy, @quarkusio/devtools

[ia3andy]

@rsvoboda I believe that unicode is not by default on PowerShell, could you try what's suggested in that answer?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/49481797

If this solution works, I don't know if we should switch to bullets for Windows or keep it and let the user enable it or not?

[rsvoboda]

I tried https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57131654/using-utf-8-encoding-chcp-65001-in-command-prompt-windows-powershell-window/57134096#57134096 but without luck

A) My old Windows 10 machine without service packs installed - I don't even have that set the system locale (language for non-Unicode programs) to UTF-8 option available
B) My wife's Windows 10 machine - settings is available, selected it, restarted the system but still see ?, tried with both cmd and powershell

[ia3andy]

Ok, so we need a patch to use bullets on Windows systems.

[imshuv]

I want to work on this ,I would be extremely thankful if someone could guide me on how to get started with this?

[ejba]

Someone corrects me if I am wrong.

• Jump to independent-projects/tools/codestarts/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/codestarts/core/CodestartProjectGeneration.java
• Refactor L51 with the following algorithm:
  • Get OS name (e.g.System.getProperty("os.name"))
  • if the name contains "win" then use bullets, otherwise use CodestartType.getIcon()

[ia3andy]

@ejba that's right! We should also find a fix where those icons are used too: https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/blob/master/independent-projects/tools/message-writer/src/main/java/io/quarkus/devtools/messagewriter/MessageIcons.java