Merge pull request #1044 from GitGuardian/agateau/fix-windows-encoding

fix: force utf-8 to fix visual studio failure to print error messages

Author: salome-voltz

changelog.d/20250107_183611_aurelien.gateau_fix_windows_encoding.md

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix Visual Studio not being able to show error messages from ggshield pre-commit (#170).

ggshield/__main__.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import multiprocessing
 import os
 import sys
+from io import TextIOWrapper
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, List, Optional
 
@@ -175,6 +176,19 @@ def before_exit(ctx: click.Context, exit_code: int, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -
     sys.exit(exit_code)
 
 
+def force_utf8_output():
+    """
+    Force stdout and stderr to always be UTF-8. This is not the case on Windows
+    when stdout or stderr is not the console. Doing this fixes integration with
+    Visual Studio (see #170).
+    """
+    for out in sys.stdout, sys.stderr:
+        # pyright is not sure sys.stdout and stderr are TextIOWrapper, so it complains when
+        # calling `reconfigure()` on them, unless this check is there.
+        assert isinstance(out, TextIOWrapper)
+        out.reconfigure(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
 def main(args: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> Any:
     """
     Wrapper around cli.main() to handle the GITGUARDIAN_CRASH_LOG variable.
@@ -190,6 +204,8 @@ def main(args: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> Any:
     if sys.stderr.isatty():
         ui.set_ui(RichGGShieldUI())
 
+    force_utf8_output()
+
     show_crash_log = getenv_bool("GITGUARDIAN_CRASH_LOG")
     return cli.main(args, prog_name="ggshield", standalone_mode=not show_crash_log)