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qr.exe --ascii produces PNG when redirected to a file #428

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This produces a PNG file: qr.exe content --ascii --output=qrcode.txt
This produces an error: qr.exe content --ascii>qrcode.txt
(The error is: UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2588' in position 0: character maps to ). It happens regardless of whether I force ANSI (with /A) or Unicode (with /U).

Workaround: To create a QRCode file with (extended) ascii characters, invoke:
qr.exe content --ascii and then copy the characters from the console and paste into the file.

Perhaps this is a bug in just the documentation; qr -h says "--ascii Print as ascii even if stdout is piped."

version is 8.2
OS is Windows 10

Please let me know if you need any more info or testing.

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