Tip: Claude Code v2.1.214 Fixes Windows PowerShell Encoding Bugs That Corrupted Redirected Output

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Four Windows-specific PowerShell tool fixes land in v2.1.214: `>` and `>>` under PowerShell 5.1 wrote UTF-16LE files that other tools couldn't read as UTF-8; Python scripts crashed with UnicodeDecodeError reading non-UTF-8 stdin and UnicodeEncodeError on non-ASCII output; and `where.exe`, `fc.exe`, and `diff.exe` were reported as errors when returning a valid negative answer. If you've been debugging 'the agent wrote a file but the next step can't read it' on Windows, this is your cause — the corruption was in the redirect, not the model.