Typically in the past that would be handled by a pipe filter. People
still do that, don't they?

Also, I think a more interesting mechanism would be handling the
swamps of heterogeneous encodings, like the 9000 accidental ones from
MSW systems.

xc

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> One of the things in curl people have gotten annoyed about more than once
> through-out the years, is the fact that curl sends everything to stdout by
> default no matter what it is. Sending binary stuff to the terminal may lead
> to unhappy faces.
>
> I've started to work on code that checks for binary output to the terminal
> and avoids it, unless told okay:
>
> https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1512
>
> As always, comments and feedback are welcome!
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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