Special characters in the deployment console are not displayed properly

Hi there, my team is trying to run Cypress test suites and they are triggered by Octopus via power shell script.
What we’re noticing is that special characters (like dashes, checkmarks) are not being interpreted correctly in the Octopus console, so the end result looks like the following:

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(Run Starting)

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│ Specs: 11 found (course-planner\failed_retakes_spec.js, course-planner… │
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│ Searche… cypress\integration\course-planner* │
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Running: course-planner\failed_retakes_spec.js… (1 of 11)
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“Failed retake” courses
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obtain the auth token and portfolio ID
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reset and access Course Planner
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√ check RETAKE button is available and ADD a Retake Course (21206ms)

How can we get these characters to display properly, so that the output is more legible? I.e. it should look something like this:

=======================================================================================

(Run Starting)

│ Cypress: 3.1.0
│ Browser: Electron 59 (headless)
│ Specs: 27 found (course-planner\failed_retakes_spec.js, course-planner\grade13_column_sp…
│ Searched: cypress\integration\course-planner*, cypress\integration\student-side*, cypress…

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Running: course-planner\failed_retakes_spec.js… (1 of 27)

“Failed retake” courses
obtain the auth token and portfolio ID
reset and access Course Planner
√ check RETAKE button is available and ADD a Retake Course (11604ms)

Hi,

Sorry this issue is making your deployment output look unpleasant.

Unfortunately, we don’t offer anything that can pick up those special characters. I’m wondering if the best option is to use Cypress reporters. You might be able to hook it up so that it reports something that looks decent into the Octopus log and also outputs a fuller log that you collect as an Octopus artifact.

Michael

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