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master:  my branch: 

> Hi! > > Out of curiosity, is there any reason for implementing this using WinAPI and not simply checking for the `"TERM"` environment variable? to be honest, I am...

just in case, ssome more screenshots with other terminals Cygwin terminal:  cmd.exe:  powershell: 

unfortunately, it seems like I am not so good with mocks and don't know to properly mock modules like `msvcrt` or `ctypes`. I've tried to play a bit with `mock.patch`...

> Tests implemented on [this PR](https://github.com/SSE4/colorama/pull/1), if @SSE4 is happy with that and merges to his fork I think they will show up on here. > > It was a...

@3tilley there are some failed tests, can you take a look?

> @SSE4 can you permission me to push to that branch to just make it a bit quicker? sure, I have invited you as a collaborator to my fork. check...

I've just checked #226 doesn't fix that particular issue for me. I can take a look and let you know on my findings.

well, if I remove `import colorama` it fails with the same error for me: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\conan\colorama\test_colorama.py", line 3, in print("\N{Heavy Check Mark} check mark")...

I think the right fix to detect a proper IO encoding should be done somewhere around here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/db693df3e112c5a61f2cbef63eedce3a36520ded/Python/fileutils.c#L898 may require some collaboration with MSYS and Python developers to make it...