Jun 23, 2022

Windows Cmdline

A series of blog posts from Windows Command-Line.

  1. Backgrounder
  2. The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line
  3. Inside the Windows Console
  4. Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)
  5. Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer

Try to follow the text encoding history from 7-bit ASCII text encoding, to 8-bit, and UTF-8 encoding; all the way to command-line, shells, and consoles.