No way to change the encoding of the output

[DJackman123]

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Describe the bug

Somewhere between Azure CLI 2.1.0 and 2.3.0 a new warning message started showing up when executing some commands in the azure-devops extension: Unable to encode the output with cp1252 encoding. Unsupported characters are discarded.

This makes sense, there's probably a special character in one of the names that doesn't work in the cp12152 encoding. But there's no way to specify a different encoding to use (like UTF-8) that would allow me to get the full information in the output without discarding characters.

Command Name az repos list Extension Name: azure-devops. Version: 0.17.0.

Errors:

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az repos list --organization {} --project {} --query {} --output {}

Expected Behavior

The behavior I'd like to see is my being able to add another parameter to the command line (like --encoding utf-8) that will change the encoding of the output so the warning message does not get displayed and the output does not have any discarded characters.

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Python 3.6.6
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.3.0 *

Extensions:
azure-devops 0.17.0

Additional Context

[Blankf]

having the same experience on my azure devops hosts, did you find any solution yet.

[DJackman123]

No solution to avoid the error completely. Only a trick to avoid having the error message mess with the console color.

[LockTar]

This would be very handy to have. I saw a similar issue #581 were encoding was added. I have the warning when I'm exporting all the users of Azure DevOps.