diff --git a/poetry/console/application.py b/poetry/console/application.py
index 6adda8609ef..222094d9643 100644
--- a/poetry/console/application.py
+++ b/poetry/console/application.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 from cleo.io.outputs.output import Output
 
 from poetry.__version__ import __version__
+from poetry.core.utils._compat import PY37
 
 from .command_loader import CommandLoader
 from .commands.command import Command
@@ -143,6 +144,20 @@ def create_io(
     ) -> IO:
         io = super().create_io(input, output, error_output)
 
+        # Remove when support for Python 3.6 is removed
+        # https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3412
+        if (
+            not PY37
+            and hasattr(io.output, "_stream")
+            and hasattr(io.output._stream, "buffer")
+            and io.output._stream.encoding != "utf-8"
+        ):
+            import io as io_
+
+            io.output._stream = io_.TextIOWrapper(
+                io.output._stream.buffer, encoding="utf-8"
+            )
+
         # Set our own CLI styles
         formatter = io.output.formatter
         formatter.set_style("c1", Style("cyan"))