Strange characters in Nodeclipse console

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I am seeing strange characters in the console output when using Nodeclipse. Any idea what might be causing this? I don't think it is an Eclipse encoding issue since most of the text is fine.

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/core-util-is
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/debuglog/0.0.2
jade@1.1.4 node_modules\jade
â”œâ”€â”€ commander@2.1.0
â”œâ”€â”€ character-parser@1.2.0

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Actually here there are 2 issues: using UTF-8 for workspace (for npm) and ANSI escape sequences (for express) — Paul Verest, Oct 15 '14 at 02:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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As noted in other answers, these are ANSI escape sequences. The ansi-econsole eclipse plugin displays these correctly, as noted in another question.

NPM output with ansi-econsole eclipse plugin

Express output with ansi-econsole eclipse plugin

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answered Mar 22 '14 at 02:54

John McCarthy

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '14 at 03:07

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It looks like it's printing an escape sequence for colored text, but Eclipse isn't handling it right. Most programs have an option to disable colored output for situations like this.

answered Jan 11 '14 at 03:07

Ian Henry

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Eclipse is not all software that runs on top of it. – Paul Verest Jan 13 '14 at 01:44
Now it can with Ansi Console plugin. – Paul Verest Mar 24 '14 at 02:03

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 11 '14 at 05:34

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It is a VT escape sequence all right.

But npm is showing colors only when the output stream is not a TTY. So it looks like a bug in eclipse/nodeclipse because stderr looks like a TTY when in fact it is not.

answered Jan 11 '14 at 05:34

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Paul Verest · Answer 4 · 2014-01-13T01:45:54.423

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Change workspace character encoding to UTF-8

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace : Text file encoding

You should have read build-int Help, available with F1

or read it online https://github.com/Nodeclipse/nodeclipse-1/blob/master/org.nodeclipse.help/contents/configuration.md#configuration

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answered Jan 11 '14 at 06:33

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-1 This is not related to text file encoding, and pointing out help with `F1` is not very helpful. The link to nodeclipse's recommended configuration was interesting but not helpful in this instance because it didn't mention how to work with these ANSI escape sequences. – John McCarthy Mar 22 '14 at 02:59
That was Nodeclipse recommendation and yes there were no ANSI support in Eclipse, now ANSI Console plugin should be recommended http://www.nodeclipse.org/. – Paul Verest Mar 24 '14 at 02:10

Strange characters in Nodeclipse console

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