[BUG] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character about steamctl HOT 4 OPEN

There is no error if I run:

 steamctl apps list

I can even get the ∞ character to be rendered correctly:

208570 Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials DLC
208575 Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall
208580 STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II: The Sith Lords™
208610 Skullgirls ∞Endless Beta∞
208620 Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials
208630 Midnight Mysteries 3: Devil on the Mississippi
208640 Midnight Mysteries 4: Haunted Houdini

However, the list is really long, so it gets truncated by the Windows console, and it would be handier to save it to a text file.

I remember encountering this issue in the past, without reporting it, and then editing the code to save the output to a file.
I wonder if there is a better fix.

On a side-note, I am not sure if the issue only happens on Windows.

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The error can be reproduced with a Python file scratch_1.py, unrelated to steamctl:

print('∞')

python scratch_1.py

Output:

∞

python scratch_1.py > temp.txt

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Wok\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharmCE2022.2\scratches\scratch_1.py", line 1, in <module>
    print('∞')
  File "C:\Users\Wok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u221e' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>

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Use a terminal that supports utf8 and is configured to use utf8

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Use a terminal that supports utf8 and is configured to use utf8

That is the case. The issue is with the redirection to a file, which does not seem to work properly on Windows.

For instance, in the picture below, there is no error, but an inconsistency.

echo ∞
echo ∞ > temp.txt
type temp.txt

I can fix the inconsistency with chcp 65001, but that does not fix the error when redirecting the output of a Python script.

chcp 65001
echo ∞
echo ∞ > temp.txt
type temp.txt

For the error with Python, I have a small workaround.

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