Keep every --json ASCII, quote pasted names, and treat a closed console as the first Ctrl+C

[donislawdev]

Stability report package H: the command line in front of a console, a pipe and a shell.

What changes for a person

• Every --json is plain ASCII. A letter outside ASCII is a JSON escape, decoded back by every reader. On a console in code page 852, bws list --json > file.json used to hold bytes no UTF-8 reader accepts, and bws list --json | ConvertFrom-Json failed outright on a real machine: a description with typographic quote marks was written by the console as a plain ", ending the JSON string early. Values are unchanged once decoded (field-by-field comparison against the previous build: 801 entries, identical). The snapshot file is unchanged.
• Text output shows control characters as <U+XXXX> - C0, DEL, C1 and the direction marks, overrides and isolates - in the listing, show, snapshot diff and plan text, so a snapshot from another machine cannot drive the terminal.
• Pasted command lines quote the service name for PowerShell: double quotes where cmd reads them the same way, single quotes (with doubled quote marks) for a name PowerShell would expand, such as MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS. A name beginning with a dash comes after --.
• -- ends the switches, and the verb after snapshot is the first word that is not a switch, so bws snapshot --help shows the help.
• --timing reports asking who depends on each entry on its own line instead of under "filtered in".
• show with an unknown name and a refused plan still report what the reading admits, including running without administrator rights.
• Closing the console window during a plan counts as the first Ctrl+C: the run stops going forward and puts back what it took down, in the five seconds Windows gives. Measured with a new probe that closes a real console window: the previous build left the service stopped in 10 of 13 closes during a restart, this one in 0 of 13.

Contract

No field, switch or exit code changes meaning. The JSON bytes change (escapes), the decoded values do not. -- is a new accepted token. [contract] no.

Checked

• Command line tests 142, core EquivalentCommandTests 22, architecture 183, window (classes rendering a command) 31, integration (five classes, on a real machine) 77, site 26.
• Mutation entries: 16 new and 3 re-anchored, all caught (one replaced after it came back MISSED for a good reason: the relaxed encoder already escapes what that entry moved).

Not checked

Windows Terminal closing a tab rather than a window, a dropped SSH or WinRM session, and Windows PowerShell 5.1 argument passing. A put-back longer than about five seconds after a close is cut short by Windows.

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