Errors for invalid formatting use weird characters for spacing

[Tyrrrz]

CSharpier appears to use ┬╖┬╖┬╖┬╖┬╖┬╖┬╖┬╖ characters to space out the code snippets in the terminal:

It makes the error quite hard to parse visually, and I don't think this is the intended behavior. Any idea why this may be happening?

[belav]

CSharpier uses the following so that you can visually see the whitespace when code isn't formatted

    private static string? MakeWhiteSpaceVisible(string? value)
    {
        return value?.Replace(' ', '·').Replace('\t', '→');
    }

The goal is to make it obvious if the reason it failed the check is due to whitespace differences. A failure due to extra whitespace like below isn't obvious if you can't see it.

public class ClassName
{
····private string field1;
····
····private string field2;
}

Where are you seeing this output? CSharpier is writing on stdout using UTF8 encoding.

[Tyrrrz]

I'm seeing this both in GH Actions, as well as locally in Rider's integrated terminal.

Here's the link to the actions job where you can see it: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode/actions/runs/6026195051/job/16349413554

May be relevant, dotnet test is executed with these environment variables: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/.github/blob/ee8b7cbb856b44eb0db9c0ec45f305272f7a7a12/.github/workflows/nuget.yml#L44C9-L52

[belav]

Took me a bit - I figured out this is an issue with CSharpier.Msbuild but I believe only on windows.

[Tyrrrz]

A bit related but slightly off-topic, may I suggest displaying the space indicator characters only for indentation (i.e. before the first non-whitespace character)? It gets a bit noisy when it's in the middle of the line (e.g. return·value?.Replace(... in your example).

[belav]

@Tyrrrz I can play around with limiting where whitespace is visible. Maybe something like just making the first couple of spaces/tabs that are different will work better and not be so noisy. I wrote up #953 and have a couple of ideas to try out for improving it. Thanks for the suggestion!