From 6930453aea5d3a319e1d774367c8b672bf0d9284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Md. Iftakhar Awal Chowdhury" <iftakhar.awal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:44:38 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(latex): set utf-8 python io encoding for windows

---
 lua/render-markdown/handler/latex.lua | 12 +++++++++++-
 tests/helpers/system.lua              |  1 +
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lua/render-markdown/handler/latex.lua b/lua/render-markdown/handler/latex.lua
index 9bc75a9d..22531075 100644
--- a/lua/render-markdown/handler/latex.lua
+++ b/lua/render-markdown/handler/latex.lua
@@ -101,7 +101,14 @@ function Handler.convert(cmd, inputs)
     if vim.system then
         local tasks = {} ---@type table<string, vim.SystemObj>
         for _, input in ipairs(inputs) do
-            tasks[input] = vim.system({ cmd }, { stdin = input, text = true })
+            tasks[input] = vim.system({ cmd }, {
+                stdin = input,
+                text = true,
+                -- Python defaults redirected streams to the active code page on
+                -- Windows. latex2text can emit characters that code page cannot
+                -- represent, causing the converter to exit with an encoding error.
+                env = { PYTHONIOENCODING = 'utf-8' },
+            })
         end
         for input, task in pairs(tasks) do
             local output = task:wait()
@@ -113,6 +120,8 @@ function Handler.convert(cmd, inputs)
             end
         end
     else
+        local encoding = vim.env.PYTHONIOENCODING
+        vim.env.PYTHONIOENCODING = 'utf-8'
         for _, input in ipairs(inputs) do
             local result = vim.fn.system(cmd, input)
             if vim.v.shell_error == 0 and result then
@@ -121,6 +130,7 @@ function Handler.convert(cmd, inputs)
                 failed[#failed + 1] = input
             end
         end
+        vim.env.PYTHONIOENCODING = encoding
     end
     return failed
 end
diff --git a/tests/helpers/system.lua b/tests/helpers/system.lua
index c74bf2b1..0206f134 100644
--- a/tests/helpers/system.lua
+++ b/tests/helpers/system.lua
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ function M.mock(command, outputs)
     end)
     stub.new(vim, 'system', function(cmd, opts)
         assert.same({ command }, cmd)
+        assert.same({ PYTHONIOENCODING = 'utf-8' }, opts.env)
         local output = outputs[opts.stdin]
         assert.not_nil(output, ('missing output: %s'):format(opts.stdin))
         return Task.new(table.concat(output, '\n') .. '\n')