diff --git a/lib/build.js b/lib/build.js
index 5102a3aa..741e92ab 100644
--- a/lib/build.js
+++ b/lib/build.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ export default {
     this.tools = [ require('./atom-build') ];
     this.linter = null;
 
+    this.detectConsoleEncoding();
     this.setupTargetManager();
     this.setupBuildView();
     this.setupErrorMatcher();
@@ -47,6 +48,21 @@ export default {
     atom.packages.onDidActivateInitialPackages(() => this.targetManager.refreshTargets());
   },
 
+  detectConsoleEncoding() {
+    this.encoding = 'utf8';
+
+    if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+      // On windows, `chcp` commnad prints current console codepage.
+      // see: https://ss64.com/nt/chcp.html
+      require('child_process').exec('chcp', (err, stdout, stderr) => {
+        if (stdout) {
+          const i = stdout.lastIndexOf(':');
+          this.encoding = 'cp' + stdout.slice(i + 1).trim();
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  },
+
   setupTargetManager() {
     const TargetManager = require('./target-manager');
     this.targetManager = new TargetManager();
@@ -161,14 +177,15 @@ export default {
         );
       }
 
+      const iconv = require('iconv-lite');
       let stdout = '';
       let stderr = '';
-      this.child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
-      this.child.stderr.setEncoding('utf8');
-      this.child.stdout.on('data', d => (stdout += d));
-      this.child.stderr.on('data', d => (stderr += d));
-      this.child.stdout.pipe(this.buildView.terminal);
-      this.child.stderr.pipe(this.buildView.terminal);
+      const decodeStdout = this.child.stdout.pipe(iconv.decodeStream(this.encoding));
+      const decodeStderr = this.child.stderr.pipe(iconv.decodeStream(this.encoding));
+      decodeStdout.on('data', d => (stdout += d));
+      decodeStderr.on('data', d => (stderr += d));
+      decodeStdout.pipe(this.buildView.terminal);
+      decodeStderr.pipe(this.buildView.terminal);
       this.child.killSignals = (target.killSignals || [ 'SIGINT', 'SIGTERM', 'SIGKILL' ]).slice();
 
       this.child.on('error', (err) => {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8a6b52be..fbed7feb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     "cross-spawn": "^4.0.2",
     "cson-parser": "^1.3.0",
     "getmac": "^1.0.7",
+    "iconv-lite": "^0.4.23",
     "js-yaml": "^3.4.6",
     "term.js": "https://github.com/jeremyramin/term.js/tarball/de1635fc2695e7d8165012d3b1d007d7ce60eea2",
     "tree-kill": "^1.0.0",