8.4.2: "incompatible encodings: CP850 and UTF-8" - Issue sending DB records to Elastic after upgrade to Elastic 8.4.2 from 8.3.2

I seem to have the same issue, but only on all my windows desktops not on the windows server.
And it somehow magically goes away if I redirect standard output of logstash, which just makes no sense at all.

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-issue-depending-on-how-logstash-is-started/317136