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This issue isn't specific to Windows and occurs on Linux as well. Basically, what is happening is that when the puppet agent loads a cached catalog from disk, it assigns a string encoding equal to whatever locale Ruby's Encoding.default_external is set to. This usually isn't noticeable on Linux because the server and agents are likely using the same locale and both likely using UTF-8. Windows agents are likely to be using a different locale than a Linux master. For example, my 2012 R2 box lists "IBM 437" as the default encoding:
C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc>cd "C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin"
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C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin>ruby -e 'puts Encoding.default_external'
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IBM437
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IBM 437 is backwards-compatible with ASCII but not UTF-8. Therefore any UTF-8 content produced by the master will be garbled if rendered as IBM 437.
Re-production Case
Add the following file resource to site.pp:
$test_path = $::osfamily ? {
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'Windows' => 'C:/tmp/utf_test',
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default => '/tmp/utf_test',
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}
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file { $test_path:
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content => @(UTF8)
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Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen
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Røtern nik Akten Di
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Wik
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Alsø wik
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Alsø alsø wik
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Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
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See the løveli lakes
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The wøndërful telephøne system
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And mäni interesting furry animals
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Including the majestik møøse
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A Møøse once bit my sister...
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No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
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We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
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}
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Run puppet agent -t. The correct contents should appear in /tmp/test.
Run puppet agent -t --use_cached_catalog on Windows. On Linux, shift the agent into a ISO-8859-1 (or other non-UTF locale from locale -a) by running LC_ALL=en_GB.iso88591 puppet agent -t --use_cached_catalog. The contents of /tmp/test will be replaced with corrupted text.
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