Inconsistent character encoding from windows output

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading the migrated JupyterLab issue 1239 and the referenced Python issue 28675, then reproduce !dir in a JupyterLab Notebook on Windows. Done means that characters from Windows command output are decoded correctly rather than appearing corrupted.

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Description

Looking at this issue in the JupyterLab repo, we wanted to migrate it here since it's not related to the JupyterLab frontend: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/1239

Original report:

trying "!dir" in Jupyterlab Notebook, hoping for the best as there may be some "utf-8" standardization thanks to PEP 528 / 529, I see no effect: still badly decoded characters.

I have difficulties to guess from bugs.python.org if something can be done in Jupyterlab (or qtconsole) case: https://bugs.python.org/issue28675

Maybe I don't take the right example to see the PEP 528 / 529 effects.

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