New implementation of pseudo console support (experimental)

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Takashi,

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:41:56 +0200
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > On Aug 19 20:39, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:57:18 +0900
> > > > Adapted to the current git head.
> > >
> > > Aligned the timing of seup_locale () call with the recent pty change.
> >
> > Shall we release 3.1.7 as bugfix release and then merge this patch
> > and bump to 3.2.0?
>
> It might be time to do so. Thanks.

Sorry to latch onto this thread with something slightly different, but we
do see pretty serious encoding problems (both with and without
`CYGWIN=disable_pcon`) in the Git for Windows and the MSYS2 projects. For
example, in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1974 the
following issue was reported. If you compile a _MINGW_ program from this
source code:

-- snip --
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
  puts("Привет мир! Hello world!");
  return 0;
}
-- snap --

and then execute it, you will see this output:

-- snip --
Привет мир! Hello world!
-- snap --

Piping the output through `cat.exe` "fixes" the issue. I tried both with
v3.1.7 and with the tip of the main branch. Could I ask you to have a look
at this?

Ciao,
Johannes