[BUG] Emoji character in node name screws up tabular formatting of --nodes

[brad28b]

See attached image. The node 'Highton Rooftop' is using an Emoji in their node name. It screws up the tabular formatting of the output for the --nodes argument, making it harder to parse, and visually messy.

[ianmcorvidae]

This is a weakness of the underlying library, tabulate, but can be corrected by installing the library wcwidth (which is not included by default with tabulate).

If you run pip install wcwidth within the same environment you installed meshtastic, it should be corrected

[brad28b]

Thank you very much for the very fast response. I can confirm your recommendation fixes it. Would it be worth adding wcwidth as a dependency?

[ianmcorvidae]

With #723 this should now be installed when meshtastic is installed as meshtastic[cli] (which as of recently also includes some other cosmetic sorts of dependencies, such as print_color). It won't be installed with a very basic install, especially so that library users don't need to install the wcwidth library.

[brad28b]

It still seems to be broken with the 👀 character, see attached. This is after a new install of meshtastic[cli], using Windows 11.

[ianmcorvidae]

I think you may have tested before I formally cut the release that included this. Could you try updating again to CLI version 2.5.7, with meshtastic[cli]? That should install wcwidth and display this correctly.

[brad28b]

I just tried again, those googley eyes emoticon still seem to screw it up, but it works fine for all other emoticons.

Confirm wcwidth was installed.