diff --git a/scripts/mempalace_repair_encoding.py b/scripts/mempalace_repair_encoding.py
index b5c5aab..a6037a6 100755
--- a/scripts/mempalace_repair_encoding.py
+++ b/scripts/mempalace_repair_encoding.py
@@ -134,7 +134,24 @@ def _print_change(
     )
 
 
+def _reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows() -> None:
+    """Decode stdio as UTF-8 on Windows for the encoding-repair CLI.
+
+    Thin wrapper around the shared helper in ``mempalace._stdio``, matching
+    ``cli.py`` and ``fact_checker.py``. stdout/stderr override to ``replace``
+    because every proposed change prints a before/after preview of verbatim
+    drawer text -- under the legacy console codepage this tool is written for,
+    ``strict`` raises on the mojibake lead bytes themselves and aborts the run
+    before a single drawer is repaired.
+    """
+    from mempalace._stdio import reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows
+
+    reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows(stdout_errors="replace", stderr_errors="replace")
+
+
 def main() -> int:
+    _reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows()
+
     parser = build_parser()
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/tests/test_repair_encoding_cli.py b/tests/test_repair_encoding_cli.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2609f33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_repair_encoding_cli.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+"""Stdio tests for the encoding-repair CLI (scripts/).
+
+The tool ships as a script, not a package module; load it directly, the
+same way tests/test_backfill_authored_at.py does.
+"""
+
+import importlib.util
+import io
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import textwrap
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+_REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+_SCRIPT = _REPO_ROOT / "scripts" / "mempalace_repair_encoding.py"
+_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("mempalace_repair_encoding", _SCRIPT)
+repair_cli = importlib.util.module_from_spec(_spec)
+_spec.loader.exec_module(repair_cli)
+
+
+class _ReconfigurableStringIO(io.StringIO):
+    def __init__(self, initial_value=""):
+        super().__init__(initial_value)
+        self.reconfigure_calls = []
+
+    def reconfigure(self, **kwargs):
+        self.reconfigure_calls.append(kwargs)
+
+
+def test_reconfigures_stdio_to_utf8_on_windows():
+    """This entry point must apply the same Windows stdio fix as the others.
+
+    ``mempalace/_stdio.py`` states the rule: every console entry point that
+    touches stdio needs it. This one prints verbatim drawer text, so it needs
+    it more than most -- the characters it exists to repair are exactly the
+    ones the legacy console codepage cannot encode.
+    """
+    stdin = _ReconfigurableStringIO()
+    stdout = _ReconfigurableStringIO()
+    stderr = _ReconfigurableStringIO()
+    with (
+        patch.object(sys, "platform", "win32"),
+        patch.object(sys, "stdin", stdin),
+        patch.object(sys, "stdout", stdout),
+        patch.object(sys, "stderr", stderr),
+    ):
+        repair_cli._reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows()
+
+    # Mirrors cli.py and fact_checker.py: stdout/stderr use ``replace`` because
+    # this tool prints verbatim drawer content that may carry surrogate halves,
+    # where ``strict`` would crash mid-preview and abandon the run.
+    assert stdin.reconfigure_calls == [{"encoding": "utf-8", "errors": "surrogateescape"}]
+    assert stdout.reconfigure_calls == [{"encoding": "utf-8", "errors": "replace"}]
+    assert stderr.reconfigure_calls == [{"encoding": "utf-8", "errors": "replace"}]
+
+
+def test_change_preview_survives_a_legacy_console_codepage():
+    """Printing a mojibake preview must not kill the run on a GBK console.
+
+    Reproduces the real failure rather than asserting a call happened: a
+    child process is given a legacy codepage for stdout, then asked to print
+    the same before/after preview the tool emits for every proposed change.
+    Without the reconfigure this raises UnicodeEncodeError on U+00C3 -- the
+    very character the repair targets -- and the whole repair run aborts.
+    """
+    # sys.platform is forced to win32 because the shared helper is a no-op
+    # elsewhere; the same patch the cli/fact_checker stdio tests use. stdout is
+    # given a legacy codepage so the encode actually has to succeed.
+    program = textwrap.dedent(f"""
+        import importlib.util, sys
+        spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("m", {str(_SCRIPT)!r})
+        m = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+        spec.loader.exec_module(m)
+        # Fake the platform only AFTER importing: mempalace.palace and friends
+        # branch on sys.platform at import time and would take the Windows
+        # path (msvcrt) on this host.
+        sys.platform = "win32"
+        m._reconfigure_stdio_utf8_on_windows()
+        m._print_change("drawer-1", "Coração", "Coração", preview_chars=80)
+        print("SURVIVED")
+    """)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", program],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        env={**dict(__import__("os").environ), "PYTHONIOENCODING": "cp936"},
+        cwd=str(_REPO_ROOT),
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0, f"tool crashed printing its own preview:\n{result.stderr}"
+    assert "SURVIVED" in result.stdout