Include error handling when trying to set UTF-8 outputs

nathanjmcdougall · web-flow · commit 9fe1625ce343 · 2025-07-31T12:06:23.000+12:00
diff --git a/src/usethis/_console.py b/src/usethis/_console.py
@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@
     from rich.table import Table
 
 # Unicode support - but we need to be able to write bytes
-sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdout.buffer)
-sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stderr.buffer)
+try:
+    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdout.buffer)
+    sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stderr.buffer)
+except AttributeError:
+    # e.g. in Jupyter
+    pass
 
 console = Console()
 err_console = Console(stderr=True)
