fix: preserve subprocess results with non-UTF-8 output - #1184
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A build tool emitting non-UTF-8 bytes replaces its actual exit error with
UnicodeDecodeError. In verbose mode the same decoding failure can abort a successful tool invocation. Decode diagnostics withbackslashreplacein both captured and streamed output so the original byte is visible and the subprocess exit status is preserved.Three regressions run real Python subprocesses emitting byte 0xff, covering failed commands in quiet and verbose modes and successful verbose output. All fail before the change. Validation: 304 tests plus 5 subtests pass (47 platform/integration skips), Pyrefly reports zero errors and 100% public type coverage, and all changed-file pre-commit checks pass.
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Issue tracking: Found during source inspection; no matching open issue was identified for this fix.