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[process] Garbage in stdout in the Windows tests

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#5,142 opened on May 14, 2019

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Description

Some tests are disabled under Windows, due to weird data coming from the standard output.

https://github.com/theia-ide/theia/blob/2b950102fbd058459ebe227b9e128e3637bc8ad2/packages/process/src/node/terminal-process.spec.ts#L106-L177

The expected output does appear, but is surrounded by random (?) data.

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Research direction
Investigate why additional data appears in stdout on Windows tests. Check for encoding mismatches, newline differences, or terminal emulation artifacts in the child process output.
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typescriptnodejs
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GitNode.js
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