Console application prints differently than online compiler

Question

I am writing a program for connect 4 that works very well. Only problem is that in visual studio the method

    public static void Display(char[,] board)
    {
        Console.Clear();
        for (int i = 1; i < 8; i++)
        {
            Console.Write(" " + i);
        }
        Console.WriteLine();
        for (int j = 0; j < 15; j++)
        {
            Console.Write("_");
        }
        Console.WriteLine();
        for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < 7; j++)
            {
                Console.Write("|" + board[i, j]);
            }
            Console.WriteLine('|');
        }
        for (int j = 0; j < 15; j++)
        {
            Console.Write("¯");
        }
        Console.WriteLine();
    }

prints the last for loop too low. It is inadequate. It should be like that (works in repl)

but gets printed like that (in VS)

I tried to use ¯ instead of ‾ but it just printed out question marks ??????????

Answer 1

Why not using the good old Box Drawing characters?

You will have an output like this:

public static void Display(char[,] board)
{
    Console.Clear();

    Console.Write(" ");
    for (int i = 1; i < 8; i++)
    {
        Console.Write(" " + i + "  ");
    }
    Console.WriteLine();

    Console.Write("┌");
    for (int j = 0; j < 6; j++)
    {
        Console.Write("───┬");
    }
    Console.WriteLine("───┐");

    for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < 7; j++)
        {
            Console.Write("│" + " " + board[i, j] + " ");
        }
        Console.WriteLine("│");

        Console.Write(i < 5 ? "├───┼" : "└───┴");
        for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
        {
            Console.Write(i < 5 ? "───┼" : "───┴");
        }
        Console.WriteLine(i < 5 ? "───┤" : "───┘");
    }

    Console.WriteLine();
}