Output from cypress test runner is slightly broken

[danieljabailey]

My test runs with cypress (https://www.cypress.io/) produce output that looks like this:

The same output as seen from my terminal emulator looks correct:

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Is there some configuration of travis’s terminal emulator that I am missing? or is this is a bug in travis?

[danieljabailey]

[BanzaiMan]

If your output relies on certain ANSI sequences to move the cursor to paint the pretty pictures, those will not work, as our logs are streams, not real terminals.

[native-api]

I believe this is a manifestation of

� characters in Travis console log

So I have two multiline javascript strings which should be equal that I am comparing. However, Travis is interpreting one of the strings with multiple replacement characters (�). I’m guessing it might have something to do with utf8 encoding. The table characters like https://graphemica.com/┘ are represented with 3 bytes but utf8 encodes characters with 1 byte (8 bits). Here is an example of what the string looks like: Listing open pull requests on protoEvangelion/gh protoEvangelion/gh…

AFAICS with the latest changes to the Web UI, Travis log view does attempt to emulate terminal control characters but they still get distorted sometimes.