title: Funny characters in Visual Studio output window
body: <p>I have written an External Tool that uses <code>plink.exe</code> to execute <code>gcc</code> on a Linux system and then capture the output back on VS's output window (there is a checkmark in Tools/External Tools/Use Output Window). But Linux outputs with UTF-8 and so I get some garbage. Is there any way to get VS to translate that UTF-8 output to readable output?</p>
  
  <p>For example, Linux is trying to output this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>test.c:214: warning: conflicting types for ‘test_zero_read’
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it shows up in VS's output window like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>test.c:214: warning: conflicting types for â€˜test_zero_readâ€™
  </code></pre>