I am investigating a strange behavior from a Nestjs project I am developing, that wants to use @NestJs/Pino logger to display emojis in the terminal's logs. However, node-emoji only display the emoji properly in the terminal if I use console.log(emoji.get('gear')). However, if I use pino.info(emoji.get('gear') + ' test string.....'), I get an output of: [1646848210346] INFO (18320 on DESKTOP-2H3BS4O): **⚙️** test string...... Where "⚙️", is supposed to be the emoji printed by the logger at the terminal.
I have seek support at Nestjs's discord, but there, a user used my minimum reproduction repository, and the problem did not happened in their environment. I am using Windows/VSCode which leads me to believe that the problem might be something with my environment. So, here is the link to the repo:link, to run the project:
MY VSCode Env:
My PC environment:
Information about package.json, package-lock.json, and confiuraton for @nestjs/pino logger can be found at the linked repo.
This is known limitation of Node.js that was discovered by Pino back in 2018. Pino team proposes this workaround in their documentation.
Run this command in terminal:
chcp 65001
If you use nodemon and pino-pretty, you may have to add something like this to package.json to make it work in VSCode terminal (powershell by default).
"scripts": {
"start": "node index.js",
"dev": "chcp 65001 && nodemon index.js | pino-pretty"
},
Then, running npm run dev will work.