[BUG]

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• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
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What's Wrong?

Text with line breaks or paragraph separations is not rendering correctly on Windows PowerShell. Content after line breaks either disappears or displays with excessive blank lines.

What Should Happen?

## Environment

• Claude Code version: 2.0.73
• OS: Windows
• Terminal: PowerShell
• Encoding: UTF-8 (chcp 65001)

Text with line breaks or paragraph separations is not rendering correctly on Windows PowerShell. Content after line breaks either disappears or displays with excessive blank lines.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Claude Code in Windows PowerShell
2. Ask Claude to generate any multi-paragraph response or markdown content (tables, lists, code blocks)
3. Observe the output

## Expected Behavior
Text should display normally with proper line breaks and formatting.

## Actual Behavior

• Large blank spaces appear between lines
• Text after line breaks is partially or fully missing
• Tables and formatted content do not render correctly
• Single-line text without breaks displays correctly

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

v2.0.73

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

PowerShell

Additional Information

_No response_