_check_file/_check_dir hard-code U+2713/U+2717 and print() them to
sys.stdout. On Windows sys.stdout falls back to the ANSI code page whenever
stdout is not a console — which is every time an agent or a workflow step
captures the output — and U+2713 is unencodable in cp1252, so the document
listing aborted mid-report with UnicodeEncodeError.
This is the byte-identical twin of the block in
scripts/python/check_prerequisites.py, which I flagged in the PR for that
file rather than widening its scope.
Fall back to ASCII when stdout cannot encode the glyph. "[OK]"/"[FAIL]" is
the rendering these markers already have in-tree: Test-FileExists in
scripts/powershell/common.ps1 emits exactly those, and
normalize_status_text in tests/parity_helpers.py maps the glyphs onto them.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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