Should prompt always use UTF-8 even when the connected console may be using a different encoding?

[mfulton26]

My question is prompted (pun intended) by unicode - Deno: how to take care of accents when reading from windows terminal prompt? - Stack Overflow.

Should neves not have run into an issue here? If prompt were to detect and use whatever encoding the TTY is using (e.g. windows-1252 instead of utf-8) then it would have worked with no problems. Would doing such cause some web standard compatibility/divergence issue or as it is isolated to Deno's terminal window it might be appropriate.

Thank you.

[paulobndes]

I'm a deno newbie, but I believe it should try to identify the encoding of the terminal. At least it should let me select the encoding.

[rafawalter]

That would be awesome!

My Windows prompt defaults to CP 850. Ending up with problems with Deno and prompting common names like "João" :-(

[rafawalter]

May be related to #8239