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 ### Known Issues
 
-_jrnl_ relies on the `Crypto` package to encrypt journals, which has some known problems in automatically installing within virtual environments.
+- The Windows shell prior to Windows 7 has issues with unicode encoding. If you want to use non-ascii characters, change the codepage with `chcp 1252` before using `jrnl` (Thanks to Yves Pouplard for solving this!)
+- _jrnl_ relies on the `Crypto` package to encrypt journals, which has some known problems with installing within virtual environments.
 
 Advanced usage
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