Problems displaying German umlauts

[Nothingtoloose]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

win_shell

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.4.1.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/hubot/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

CONFIGURATION

I made no changes.

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Source: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Target: Windows 10 64Bit

SUMMARY

The function "win_shell" displays German umlauts incorrectly.
Example:

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------           ----               -----------                           
Running  wlidsvc            Anmelde-Assistent f�r Microsoft-Konten

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Run the following code on the console

ansible windows -m win_shell -a "powershell Get-Service -Name wlidsvc"

EXPECTED RESULTS

Ansible should display German umlauts like "ü""ä".

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------           ----               -----------                           
Running  wlidsvc            Anmelde-Assistent für Microsoft-Konten

ACTUAL RESULTS

Ansible cannot display German umlauts.

Status   Name               DisplayName                           
------           ----               -----------                           
Running  wlidsvc            Anmelde-Assistent f�r Microsoft-Konten

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[dagwieers]

I agree, the resulting output should be Unicode.

If I run this playbook:

- hosts: computers
  tasks:
  - win_shell: Write-Host "éèüö€"

I get this output:

[dag@moria crombeen]$ ansible-playbook test2.yml -l computer27 -v
Using /home/dag/home-made/crombeen/ansible.cfg as config file

PLAY [computers] ****************************************************************

TASK [win_shell] ****************************************************************
changed: [computer27] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "Write-Host \"éèüö€\"", "delta": "0:00:01.244067", "end": "2017-11-23 10:17:45.210095", "rc": 0, "start": "2017-11-23 10:17:43.966028", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "����?\n", "stdout_lines": ["����?"]}

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************
computer27                 : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0   

[jborean93]

@Nothingtoloose @dagwieers this was a puzzling one to try and track down as Windows does not make this easy. I was able to figure out the reason why this occurs and have created a PR to fix this in the various instances that it would be affected. If you are able to test it out that would be great #37229

[dagwieers]

It now works fine with #37229

[dag@moria crombeen]$ ansible-playbook test2.yml -l computer91 -v
Using /home/dag/home-made/crombeen/ansible.cfg as config file

PLAY [computers] *********************************************************************************************

TASK [win_shell] *********************************************************************************************
changed: [computer91] => {"changed": true, "cmd": "Write-Host \"éèüö€\"", "delta": "0:00:00.468763", "end": "2018-03-21 11:57:02.115029", "rc": 0, "start": "2018-03-21 11:57:01.646266", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "éèüö€\n", "stdout_lines": ["éèüö€"]}

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************
computer91                 : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0