Win32console gem with cucumber - letter "a" is missing!

I was just trying to follow up Ryan B. tut on Railscasts about using
cucumber

All installed and runs great, except the letter “a” is missing from all
words in the output!

This only happens in the Cucumber text output.

the gem I installed is:
win32console-1.2.0-x86-mswin32-60

I am on Win XP sp3

Just to make sure it is the console, I removed the gem and ran
“cucumber features” and same output without colors looks fine with no
missing letters.

did that happen to anyone else?
I still can’t figure out the problem and how to get it fixed!

Please find the screenshot attached.

Bachir El khoury wrote:

I was just trying to follow up Ryan B. tut on Railscasts about using
cucumber
#155 Beginning with Cucumber - RailsCasts

All installed and runs great, except the letter “a” is missing from all
words in the output!

Type ‘chcp 1252’.
Observe the magic. chcp stands for ‘change codepage’, I believe.

Magic indeed! thanks alot Aldric.

Aldric G. wrote:

Type ‘chcp 1252’.
Observe the magic. chcp stands for ‘change codepage’, I believe.