if (!fd) {
if (!GetConsoleMode(hcon, &mode))
return 0;
+ /*
+ * This code path is only reached if there is no console
+ * attached to stdout/stderr, i.e. we will not need to output
+ * any text to any console, therefore we might just as well
+ * use black as foreground color.
+ */
+ sbi.wAttributes = 0;
} else if (!GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hcon, &sbi))
return 0;
/* convert utf-8 to utf-16 */
int wlen = xutftowcsn(wbuf, (char*) str, ARRAY_SIZE(wbuf), len);
+ if (wlen < 0) {
+ wchar_t *err = L"[invalid]";
+ WriteConsoleW(console, err, wcslen(err), &dummy, NULL);
+ return;
+ }
/* write directly to console */
WriteConsoleW(console, wbuf, wlen, &dummy, NULL);