diff --git a/mypy/stubtest.py b/mypy/stubtest.py
index f9e6f7d337be..8ea9d786be22 100644
--- a/mypy/stubtest.py
+++ b/mypy/stubtest.py
@@ -2062,7 +2062,7 @@ def warning_callback(msg: str) -> None:
             if args.generate_allowlist:
                 generated_allowlist.add(error.object_desc)
                 continue
-            print(error.get_description(concise=args.concise))
+            safe_print(error.get_description(concise=args.concise))
             error_count += 1
 
     # Print unused allowlist entries
@@ -2102,6 +2102,19 @@ def warning_callback(msg: str) -> None:
     return exit_code
 
 
+def safe_print(text: str) -> None:
+    """Print a text replacing chars not representable in stdout encoding."""
+    # If `sys.stdout` encoding is not the same as out (usually UTF8) string,
+    # if may cause painful crashes. I don't want to reconfigure `sys.stdout`
+    # to do `errors = "replace"` as that sounds scary.
+    out_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding
+    if out_encoding is not None:
+        # Can be None if stdout is replaced (including our own tests). This should be
+        # safe to omit if the actual stream doesn't care about encoding.
+        text = text.encode(out_encoding, errors="replace").decode(out_encoding, errors="replace")
+    print(text)
+
+
 def parse_options(args: list[str]) -> _Arguments:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description="Compares stubs to objects introspected from the runtime."