Hi!
I noticed text encoding problems in console view/RC in VLC 3.0.0 and up.
Screenshot shows the problem, in VLC 2.2.8 everything is fine - as reference.
OS: Windows 7 64 bit.
https://i.imgur.com/sM6Ro17.gif
Tested versions:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
vlc-2.2.8-win32.7z - good encoding
vlc-3.0.0-win32.7z 09-Feb-2018 21:21 - bad
vlc-3.0.0-win64.7z 09-Feb-2018 20:16 - bad
https://nightlies.videolan.org/
vlc-3.0.1-20180225-0303-win32.7z - bad
vlc-4.0.0-20180225-0302-dev-win32.7z - bad