code: def decode_for_output(output, target_stream=None, translation_map=None):
      
  
      if not isinstance(output, six.string_types):
          return output
      encoding = None
      if target_stream is not None:
          encoding = getattr(target_stream, "encoding", None)
      encoding = get_output_encoding(encoding)
      try:
          output = _encode(output, encoding=encoding, translation_map=translation_map)
      except (UnicodeDecodeError, UnicodeEncodeError):
          output = to_native_string(output)
          output = _encode(
              output, encoding=encoding, errors="replace", translation_map=translation_map
          )
      return to_text(output, encoding=encoding, errors="replace")
docs: Given a string, decode it for output to a terminal
  
      :param str output: A string to print to a terminal
      :param target_stream: A stream to write to, we will encode to target this stream if possible.
      :param dict translation_map: A mapping of unicode character ordinals to replacement strings.
      :return: A re-encoded string using the preferred encoding
      :rtype: str