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Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

lhecker

A group of users were trying to implement a simple, terminal-based video game and found the performance under Windows Terminal to be entirely unsuitable for such a task. The performance issue could be replicated by repeatedly drawing a "rainbow" and measuring how many frames per second (FPS) we can achieve. The one below has 20 distinct colors...

Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer

November 15, 2018 Nov 15, 2018 11/15/18

Rich Turner

In this post, we'll discuss the improvements we've been making to the Windows Console's internal text buffer, enabling it to better store and handle Unicode and UTF-8 text. Posts in the Windows Command-Line series: This list will be updated as more posts are published: [Source: David Farrell’s “Building a UTF-8 encoder in ...

Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

August 2, 2018 Aug 2, 2018 08/2/18

Rich Turner

In this, the fourth post in the Windows Command-Line series, we'll discuss the new Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) infrastructure and API - why we built it, what it's for, how it works, how to use it, and more.

Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18

Rich Turner

Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!

Windows Command Line

Buffers - Windows Command Line

Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?

Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer

Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console