When I run decode on a byte string encoded as UTF-8 I get ANSI encoding in a Windows command prompt. >python --version Python 3.13.0 >python -c "print(b'\xc3\x96'.decode('utf-8'))" > test.txt When I open test.txt in Notepad++ it says that the encoding is ANSI. If I run the same command in MSYS2 (using Python 3.11.6) the resulting encoding is UTF-8 as expected. How come the encoding is wrong using the Windows command prompt? Continue reading...
