I guess leaving nr. 3 out would be fine.

What would he the proper path to do this in erlang? Just writing some erlang 
example code and opening issues?

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> On 7 Apr 2022, at 06:46, José Valim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> All three of them would require changes to Erlang and I would love for 
> someone to chase this path. 2 sounds doable with EEP 54 but 1 would 
> definitely require more discussion.
> 
> I am not sure about 3. binwrite pretty much means "I know what I am doing" 
> and we should allow the user to write whatever they want as is.
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:25 AM Jonatan Männchen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks, that solved my specific issue. I still think that some improvements 
>> are needed.
>> 
>> Looking at the code for CaptureIO, I think those changes should be made 
>> directly in the StringIO / IO modules and not specifically for CaptureIO.
>> 
>> The following things are not great today IMHO:
>> The encoding that lets everything through is called latin1. I think we 
>> should introduce & properly document a new encoding called something like 
>> raw_binary. It would work exactly the same though.
>> IO.write with invalid characters into an io device with any encoding should 
>> have a better error message. (Something like "<<222>> is not a valid unicode 
>> string. Provide `encoding: :raw_binary` when opening the io device")
>> IO.binwrite with invalid characters into an encoding: :unicode io device 
>> should probably at least warn if invalid characters are passed.
>> This would something like this in the form of a test: 
>> https://gist.github.com/maennchen/f428360a71d23a323538d9b7d51e638b
>> 
>>> On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 9:29:12 PM UTC+2 Wojtek Mach wrote:
>>> > Additionally, it would be good if there was a proper error for invalid 
>>> > characters instead of the currently raised ArgumentError.
>>> 
>>> Yeah the error is pretty bad:
>>> 
>>> IO.puts(<<222>>)
>>> ** (ArgumentError) errors were found at the given arguments: unknown error: 
>>> put_chars
>>> 
>>> It is slightly more informative when used inside capture io though:
>>> 
>>>     assert capture_io(fn ->
>>>              IO.puts(<<222>>)
>>>            end) == <<222>>
>>> ** (ArgumentError) errors were found at the given arguments: unknown error: 
>>> {put_chars,unicode,[<<"Þ">>,10]}
>>> 
>>> We get error because stdio is with unicode encoding:
>>> 
>>> iex> :io.getopts(:standard_io)[:encoding]
>>> :unicode
>>> 
>>> and we're writing <<222>> which isn't unicode.
>>> 
>>> For writing in raw mode, use IO.binwrite. This and the previously mentioned 
>>> :encoding option will make the following test succeed:
>>> 
>>>     assert capture_io([encoding: :latin1], fn ->
>>>              IO.binwrite(<<222>>)
>>>            end) == <<222>>
>>> 
>>> On April 6, 2022, "maennchen.ch" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> That unfortunately gives me the same result.
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 6:57:35 PM UTC+1 Wojtek Mach wrote:
>>>> I believe capture_io(encoding: :latin1, fun) should do the trick, can you 
>>>> check?
>>>> 
>>>> On April 6, 2022, "maennchen.ch" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> Background
>>>> 
>>>> While developing tests for a mix task, that returns non UTF8 binaries into 
>>>> STDOUT (building block to be piped into a file / pipe), I found that 
>>>> ExUnit.CaptureIO can only handle UTF8 and Latin1.
>>>> 
>>>> Example Test that does not work:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/maennchen/16d411eeda3255fa3d3152fe9d836a82
>>>> 
>>>> Proposal
>>>> 
>>>> For testing this use case, it would be good if any raw binary would also 
>>>> be passed through. (Maybe via option "encoding: :raw_binary")
>>>> 
>>>> Additionally, it would be good if there was a proper error for invalid 
>>>> characters instead of the currently raised ArgumentError.
>>>> 
>>>> Real World Example
>>>> 
>>>> Here is a real test, that would be made possible by this change: 
>>>> https://github.com/elixir-gettext/expo/blob/9048fe242830614f6d4235cbd345de844693f28a/test/mix/tasks/expo.msgfmt_test.exs#L18
>>>> 
>>>> PR
>>>> 
>>>> I'm happy to provide a PR for this as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks & Kind Regards,
>>>> Jonatan
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