[BUG] rich.progress should fallback to use ─ instead of -

So I use wsltty mainly where rich.progress uses the ━━ character for the progress bar. I checked it in cmd.exe and it showed -- for the progress bar. The fallback should be ── (also used in tables), it would give a connected line.

btw: is there any terminal that does not support the ━ character?

[pcroland]

This is still an issue as of now. The fallback character can simply be a ─. It’s even available in CP437 IBM so every terminal supports it in theory.

[wasi-master]

So the change I mentioned above works, but it has one unexpected side effect. basically options.is_terminal is for checking if the output is a terminal, not specifically command prompt, and because of that the normal behavior also changes. now one thing I notice is that it defaults to ASCII Mode on Command prompt.

So I went on to test if ASCII mode is necessary. and it looks like it isn’t since the normal character also works for me, so I checked a bunch of encodings and most of them seem to work fine. now I am a bit stuck on what to do next

On Powershell with Windows Terminal

Before: After:

If you want the default character to change to the thinner one then you can add ─