[Bug] Special characters (accents/unicode) not displaying correctly in PowerShell on Windows after v2.0.73 update
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Dec 19, 2025 by alexdonega Closed Feb 14, 2026
Description
After updating to Claude Code v2.0.73, special characters (accented letters like a, e, c, a, etc.) are not displaying correctly in PowerShell on Windows. Characters appear as broken/missing symbols.
Environment
- Claude Code version: 2.0.73
- OS: Windows
- Terminal: PowerShell
- Language: Portuguese (but likely affects all non-ASCII characters)
Steps to Reproduce
- Update Claude Code to version 2.0.73
- Run claude in PowerShell
- Ask a question that generates a response with accented characters
- Observe that special characters are not rendered correctly
Expected Behavior
Special characters (a, e, i, o, u, a, o, c, etc.) should display correctly as they did in previous versions.
Actual Behavior
Special characters appear as broken symbols or do not appear at all.
Workaround
Setting UTF-8 encoding in PowerShell does not fix the issue:
[Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8chcp 65001
Additional Context
This issue started specifically after updating to v2.0.73. Previous versions worked correctly.
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