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From: Daniel Berger on 14 Mar 2010 21:37
Luis Lavena wrote:
> win32console version 1.3.0 has been released!

<snip>

Cool.

> * Known issues:
> * win32console no longer automatically translate encoding to the console
> output enconding.

Just curious, why not?

Regards,

Dan

From: Luis Lavena on 15 Mar 2010 03:28
On Mar 15, 2:37 am, Daniel Berger <djber...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
>
> > * Known issues:
> >   * win32console no longer automatically translate encoding to the console
> >     output enconding.
>
> Just curious, why not?
>

The hardcoded codepage translation were removed as these included
binary data not compatible with 1.9.

Due the nature of 1.9, performing regular expression matches for ANSI
escape codes between encoding was expensive.

So there is no magic Iconv happening and instead allowed the developer
control it.

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena
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