Emojii showing malformed in CLI output (encoding)

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Steps to reproduce

  • Create a Task in the vault that includes emoji, for example due date: - [ ] Test Obsidian CLI task emojis ⏳ 2026-03-04 📅 2026-03-04 🔽
  • Open terminal and type: obsidian tasks daily

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Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

Expected result

CLI to output the tasks and emoji

Actual result

CLI outputs plain text and wrongly encoded emoji

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Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.4
Installer version: 1.11.7
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19045
Login status: not logged in
Language: en-GB
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 32
Plugins enabled: 17
1: Link Favicons v1.8.4
2: Iconic v1.1.4
3: Recent Files v1.7.6
4: Kanban v2.0.51
5: Tasks v7.22.0
6: Links v1.17.50
7: Linter v1.30.0
8: Copilot v3.1.4
9: CardBoard v0.7.9
10: Omnisearch v1.28.0
11: Text Extractor v0.7.0
12: Simple Colored Folder v1.3.0
13: Style Settings v1.0.9
14: Folders to Graph v1.1.0
15: Banners v1.3.3
16: Enhanced Copy v1.0.2
17: Copy document as HTML v0.8.1
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.

Additional information

I know the terminal is capable of showing correctly encoded emoji by trying the command: “write-host `u{1F600}”

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The Troubleshooting Guide asked you to download and reinstall Obsidian. It appears that you didn’t do it.

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Apologies. Now updated (Chocolatey failed the upgrade; installed from web instead).

Issue is still reproducible. Cmd and Pwsh are still showing what I presume is the wrong encoding for the emoji icons as described above.

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We don’t support Chocolatey. We only provide support for the installation we have on the website.

I am unable to reproduce your problem

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Resolved.

I uninstalled Obsidian fully and then downloaded/reinstalled it from the website. All works now.

I reinstalled through Chocolatey first, before you mentioned not supporting Chocolatey, and then a simple reinstall (install over an existing install), but the problem persisted. After, I properly uninstalled then did a fresh install from the website, it worked. Presumably, something from an earlier install was left behind at some point, but has now been cleared up.

Thanks for attempting to replicate and nudging me towards the solution.