Piped Windows output loses colour and garbles text
Piped output on Windows garbles non-ASCII text and loses colour because Rich uses the legacy console path.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 19 March 2023 · last reported 2 March 2025
What's going wrong
Command-line tools that use Rich and whose output is redirected on Windows either crash on non-ASCII characters or print garbled text.
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