CLI crashes with UnicodeEncodeError when printing help text on Windows (cp1252 console)

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Summary

On Windows with the default legacy console encoding (cp1252), any command whose help text contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. → in the search --help text) crashes with UnicodeEncodeError instead of printing help.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Shell: cmd.exe / Git Bash (default cp1252 code page)
• Install method: npm install -g parallel-web-cli
• Version: parallel-cli 0.9.3

Steps to reproduce

C:\> parallel-cli search --help

Actual result

  File "click\utils.py", line 539, in echo
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2192' in position 694
[PYI-10896:ERROR] Failed to execute script 'commands'

Expected result

Help text prints without crashing (arrow rendered or gracefully replaced).

Notes

• Actual commands (search, extract, ...) work fine; only output containing non-ASCII characters is affected.
• A likely fix is configuring stdout/stderr with errors="backslashreplace" at CLI startup so unencodable characters degrade gracefully on legacy code pages. Happy to open a PR if you're open to it!
• I checked existing issues/PRs first — fix: preserve non-ASCII characters in JSON output #152 touches JSON output encoding but doesn't address this.