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I think it is the Win32 API oddity, as the Win32 console has no ANSI or terminal emulation. If you want to output any color or weirdo formatting, you have to output these by directly writing to the console window yourself, bypassing the STDOUT filehandle. Hence I guess that the programmers wanted to keep their fancy feature of bold output and hence destroyed the ability to redirect the whole output.

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Re^4: Perl ignores lines with bold characters from a pipe on Windows
by kingkongrevenge (Scribe) on Mar 05, 2007 at 15:56 UTC
    I think you've nailed the culprit.
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