diff --git a/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py b/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
index 044f33ed1d..2c3c981b6f 100644
--- a/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
+++ b/volatility3/cli/text_renderer.py
@@ -294,7 +294,10 @@ def render(self, grid: interfaces.renderers.TreeGrid) -> None:
         """
         # TODO: Docstrings
         # TODO: Improve text output
-        outfd = sys.stdout
+
+        #Forces utf-8 encoding to prevent Windows powershell UnicodeEncodeError
+        from io import TextIOWrapper
+        outfd = TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
 
         line = []
         ignore_columns = self.ignored_columns(grid)