I have lately been facing an issue where my <code>artisan</code> outputs a lot of strange characters such as <code>?[32m</code>. It seems to be an issue with the latest Laravel.
Until now I have managed to read around it, but it still annoyed me.
Finally today I found the solution in this thread: <a href="https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/php-artisan-not-working-4?page=1#reply=543852" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/php-..</a>
<h4 id="solution">Solution</h4>
As Nakov says, you must have this package in your project to make it look correct again:
<pre><code>composer require symfony/console:4.3.4
</code></pre>

I have lately been facing an issue where my `artisan` outputs a lot of strange characters such as `?[32m`. It seems to be an issue with the latest Laravel.

Until now I have managed to read around it, but it still annoyed me.

Finally today I found the solution in this thread: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/php-artisan-not-working-4?page=1#reply=543852

#### Solution

As **Nakov** says, you must have this package in your project to make it look correct again:

```
composer require symfony/console:4.3.4
```

Fix the strange characters for (PHP) Artisan

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Emil Moe

Emil Moe

Fix the strange characters for (PHP) Artisan

Solution