Neither cmd, nor PowerShell are the console host (which would be doing things like outputting text in a character grid), so they're both very far removed from t

Neither cmd, nor PowerShell are the console host (which would be doing things like outputting text in a character grid), so they're both very far removed from the problem. Heck, when a console program is running it doesn't even need a shell, nor does the parent shell (if there is one) even know when the program outputs text.