From 27c8dfddac4c69a6fd399abe537e1007306c58cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Bonander <austin.bonander@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 22:38:43 -0800
Subject: Improve error message and docs for non-UTF-8 bytes in stdio on
 Windows

cc #23344
---
 src/libstd/sys/windows/stdio.rs | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/libstd/sys/windows')

diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/stdio.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/stdio.rs
index a4f4bd22cd9..0ea19a85525 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/stdio.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/stdio.rs
@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ impl Output {
 }
 
 fn invalid_encoding() -> io::Error {
-    io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, "text was not valid unicode")
+    io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                   "Windows stdio in console mode does not support non-UTF-8 byte sequences; \
+                    see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/23344")
 }
 
 fn readconsole_input_control(wakeup_mask: c::ULONG) -> c::CONSOLE_READCONSOLE_CONTROL {
-- 
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