Unable to show weather data on Windows console

The console is not able to display data returned by curl wttr.in. It’s all garbled. I know it’s a Windows problem but do you have any suggestions on how can I make it work.

I even tried an external console emulator, ConEmu. No luck there too.

[majkinetor]

People on Reddit found solution:

 $(Invoke-WebRequest http://wttr.in ).ParsedHtml.body.outerText

[PhMajerus]

Just to let you guys know, that isn’t a bug in wttr.in, but a limitation of the current Win32 version of curl.

Basically the Windows 10 console starts without VT processing enabled for backward compatibility. The current Win32 version of curl.exe (shipping in Win10 1809) doesn’t change the configuration of the console, so it inherits whichever mode was set by another process attached to the same console before it. It seems cmd.exe and PowerShell both unset the VT-processing flag before launching external utilities, probably to accommodate for backward compatibility again, assuming if an utility expects VT processing, it will set the flag itself before outputting VT markup. Launching curl.exe from a shell that leaves the VT-processing flag on does result in the expected colorful result, but that means you’d need an intermediate launcher when using it from cmd.exe or PowerShell. The only proper fix is for curl.exe to enable VT-processing. More details if you want : https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/216

wttr.in works properly when ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING is set, except for diagonal wind directions arrows that use a glyph not available in the standard console fonts (Consolas and Lucida Console).