Consider Setting Console CP to UTF-8 on Windows to enable UTF-8 Console Output about gradle HOT 3 OPEN

I decided to do a little repro for the general issue of UTF-8 console output in Gradle:
https://github.com/shartte/gradle-utf-8-repro

The expected output can be seen in the Github Action output of that repo:

The same script, run under a Windows command prompt with default settings (conhost.exe):

Windows Terminal using default settings:

WSL-2 in Windows-Terminal:

Git Bash:

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This feature request is in the backlog of the relevant team and is prioritized by them.

Thanks for taking the time to craft a reproducer and show different outputs with different setups.

Relates to:

• #28959
• #19952

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I should also note that there is another way that would completely circumvent probably both the stdout encoding and windows console codepage issue:

In the Gradle "client" process that receives text output from the Daemon in Java-String-Form (so UTF-16 internally), you could use a native Windows API to write UTF-16 to the console directly, rather than via stdout. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/writeconsole)
Interestingly enough, the gradle-natives already do the inverse of using Windows API to read from the console :-)
(https://github.com/gradle/native-platform/blob/master/native-platform/src/main/cpp/win.cpp#L671)

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