Tests that rely upon common.spawnCat() faill in Windows with Unicode shell codepage

[vsemozhetbyt]

• Version: possibly all
• Platform: Windows 7 x64
• Subsystem: test, child_process

For context see #11469

test/parallel/test-child-process-stdio-inherit.js calls common.spawnCat() that calls more for Windows. more fails with Unicode shell codepage.

To check test/parallel/test-child-process-stdio-inherit.js pass:

chcp 65001 && node test\parallel\test-child-process-stdio-inherit.js
Active code page: 65001
Not enough memory.
... AssertionError: '' === 'asdfasdf' ...

chcp 1252 && node test\parallel\test-child-process-stdio-inherit.js
Active code page: 1252
[pass]

It seems currently this is the only test that uses common.spawnCat().

[joaocgreis]

Can't this be addressed as a duplicate of #11469 ? If I understand correctly, this is for spawnCat while #11469 is for more directly, but given that spawnCat uses more, the underlying issue is the same, right?

[vsemozhetbyt]

@joaocgreis Yeah, I just was not sure if I should combine the issue with the lib and the issue with individual tests. If anybody finds a universal solution, please, close the both issues. Or feel free to close any of them as a duplicate in advance.

[joaocgreis]

Closing as a duplicate of #11469 .

Thanks @vsemozhetbyt ! If this was an issue in /lib then it would be an issue for users and would have to be addressed differently, but /test/common.js is only used by the tests, so I think this is essentially the same problem.