feat: optional stdout decoding (#351)

Do not decode stdout if the bytes cannot be represented as UTF-8. Refs: #350 Co-authored-by: Jessica Tegner <[email protected]>
JessicaTegner · Jan 18, 2024 · 651074e · 651074e
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diff --git a/pypandoc/__init__.py b/pypandoc/__init__.py
@@ -450,7 +450,8 @@ def _convert_input(source, format, input_type, to, extra_args=(),
         raise RuntimeError('Pandoc died with exitcode "%s" during conversion.' % (p.returncode))
 
     try:
-        stdout = stdout.decode('utf-8')
+        if not (to in ["odt", "docx", "epub", "epub3", "pdf"] and outputfile == "-"):
+            stdout = stdout.decode('utf-8')
     except UnicodeDecodeError:
         # this shouldn't happen: pandoc more or less guarantees that the output is utf-8!
         raise RuntimeError('Pandoc output was not utf-8.')