Text sent from Arduino via serial port is distorted if it contains non-Latin characters

[yeremee]

An example of a sketch:

This is what the output looks like in Arduino IDE:

This is what the output looks like in VS Code:

What's the matter? Why is the text distorted? I didn't find any encoding settings for the extension.

[yeremee]

The issue is being solved in another repository: vscode-serial-monitor #88