From 8366c7a2a26048e34a750cba4b851779d44e53cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cam0200 <49786671+cam0200@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 16:08:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cli QuickTextRender output utf-8

---
 volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py b/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
index 044f33ed1d..2c3c981b6f 100644
--- a/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
+++ b/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
@@ -294,7 +294,10 @@ def render(self, grid: interfaces.renderers.TreeGrid) -> None:
         """
         # TODO: Docstrings
         # TODO: Improve text output
-        outfd = sys.stdout
+
+        #Forces utf-8 encoding to prevent Windows powershell UnicodeEncodeError
+        from io import TextIOWrapper
+        outfd = TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
 
         line = []
         ignore_columns = self.ignored_columns(grid)