wakterm.utf16_to_utf8(str)

Since: Version 20200503-171512-b13ef15f

The functionality described in this section requires version 20200503-171512-b13ef15f of wakterm, or a more recent version.

This function is overly specific and exists primarily to workaround this wsl.exe issue.

It takes as input a string and attempts to convert it from utf16 to utf8.

local wakterm = require 'wakterm'

local success, wsl_list, wsl_err =
  wakterm.run_child_process { 'wsl.exe', '-l' }
wsl_list = wakterm.utf16_to_utf8(wsl_list)