From 09fadc43d3bbdfd2021a91904be2f62f9db12717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:04:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Minor improvement of stdoutEncode

---
 data/txt/sha256sums.txt |  4 ++--
 lib/core/convert.py     | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 lib/core/settings.py    |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
index 969185b03..946335c36 100644
--- a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
+++ b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ ac44a343947162532dbf17bd1f9ab424f8008f677367c5ad3f9f7b715a679818  lib/core/agent
 86a9cb82c7e7beb4730264dae20bf3b7cd87c0dcaee587367362cf319f7bb079  lib/core/bigarray.py
 f6062e324fdeaacf9df0a289fc3f12f755143e3876a70cb65b38aa2e690f73c1  lib/core/common.py
 11c748cc96ea2bc507bc6c1930a17fe4bc6fdd2dd2a80430df971cb21428eb00  lib/core/compat.py
-c6e54bfb1e3bc116ced8d525978ba3f4a10a59b99bc48d895b73359df0682d9b  lib/core/convert.py
+e5eae3c41fbe525326a14fa240882ba7e1083e0fc0561f15c9ae41a4592d3f53  lib/core/convert.py
 ae500647c4074681749735a4f3b17b7eca44868dd3f39f9cab0a575888ba04a1  lib/core/data.py
 b22decc8389c94a13f1adf07eb343cf3b2aae3fb3909fd4107e24bbede7c7deb  lib/core/datatype.py
 253309dc355ae27cd275e7de5a068e7e22feba603c4fe3429e2b69f8a51c0d13  lib/core/decorators.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ c4bfb493a03caf84dd362aec7c248097841de804b7413d0e1ecb8a90c8550bc0  lib/core/readl
 d1bd70c1a55858495c727fbec91e30af267459c8f64d50fabf9e4ee2c007e920  lib/core/replication.py
 1d0f80b0193ac5204527bfab4bde1a7aee0f693fd008e86b4b29f606d1ef94f3  lib/core/revision.py
 d2eb8e4b05ac93551272b3d4abfaf5b9f2d3ac92499a7704c16ed0b4f200db38  lib/core/session.py
-72affdfd108cd7c4c10b54389917b018731e592a5f8e087c38e14620bea551d0  lib/core/settings.py
+f869523fb2f64f4cb415ede7dda998b903dfd885c6a65b860e4f572497675181  lib/core/settings.py
 1c5eab9494eb969bc9ce118a2ea6954690c6851cbe54c18373c723b99734bf09  lib/core/shell.py
 4eea6dcf023e41e3c64b210cb5c2efc7ca893b727f5e49d9c924f076bb224053  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 cdd352e1331c6b535e780f6edea79465cb55af53aa2114dcea0e8bf382e56d1a  lib/core/target.py
diff --git a/lib/core/convert.py b/lib/core/convert.py
index 47493af5c..3502050b5 100644
--- a/lib/core/convert.py
+++ b/lib/core/convert.py
@@ -405,10 +405,13 @@ def getText(value, encoding=None):
 
 def stdoutEncode(value):
     """
-    Returns binary representation of a given Unicode value safe for writing to stdout
+    Returns textual representation of a given value safe for writing to stdout
+    >>> stdoutEncode(b"foobar")
+    'foobar'
     """
 
-    value = value or ""
+    if value is None:
+        value = ""
 
     if IS_WIN and IS_TTY and kb.get("codePage", -1) is None:
         output = shellExec("chcp")
@@ -418,36 +421,32 @@ def stdoutEncode(value):
             try:
                 candidate = "cp%s" % match.group(1)
                 codecs.lookup(candidate)
-            except LookupError:
-                pass
-            else:
                 kb.codePage = candidate
+            except (LookupError, TypeError):
+                pass
 
         kb.codePage = kb.codePage or ""
 
-    if isinstance(value, six.text_type):
-        encoding = kb.get("codePage") or getattr(sys.stdout, "encoding", None) or UNICODE_ENCODING
+    encoding = kb.get("codePage") or getattr(sys.stdout, "encoding", None) or UNICODE_ENCODING
 
-        while True:
-            try:
-                retVal = value.encode(encoding)
-                break
-            except UnicodeEncodeError as ex:
-                value = value[:ex.start] + "?" * (ex.end - ex.start) + value[ex.end:]
-
-                warnMsg = "cannot properly display (some) Unicode characters "
-                warnMsg += "inside your terminal ('%s') environment. All " % encoding
-                warnMsg += "unhandled occurrences will result in "
-                warnMsg += "replacement with '?' character. Please, find "
-                warnMsg += "proper character representation inside "
-                warnMsg += "corresponding output files"
-                singleTimeWarnMessage(warnMsg)
-
-        if six.PY3:
-            retVal = getUnicode(retVal, encoding)
+    if six.PY3:
+        if isinstance(value, (bytes, bytearray)):
+            value = getUnicode(value, encoding)
+        elif not isinstance(value, str):
+            value = str(value)
 
+        try:
+            retVal = value.encode(encoding, errors="replace").decode(encoding, errors="replace")
+        except (LookupError, TypeError):
+            retVal = value.encode("ascii", errors="replace").decode("ascii", errors="replace")
     else:
-        retVal = value
+        if isinstance(value, six.text_type):
+            try:
+                retVal = value.encode(encoding, errors="replace")
+            except (LookupError, TypeError):
+                retVal = value.encode("ascii", errors="replace")
+        else:
+            retVal = value
 
     return retVal
 
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index ca8b68abf..3a02bbffe 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from thirdparty import six
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.9.12.53"
+VERSION = "1.9.12.54"
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % ('.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[:-1]) if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] == '0' else VERSION, TYPE)