Seems like it's a PowerShell thing related to the default encoding it uses, see for example: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64935940/single-space-between-letters-of-win32-executable-output-in-powershell> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64412442/powershell-out-file-outputs-extra-spaces-in-between-characters> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20496419/how-do-i-remove-extra-spaces-from-powershell-output>
etc
