A space after each character in console?

Starting today, without apparent reason, the console and output windows in VSC are adding a space after every single character:


What can I do to get back to normal?

Never mind. I scrolled up and down a couple of times and the effect was gone. Whatever…

This still appears to be a thing that happens on up-to-date versions of PlatformIO+VSCode on Windows 10. However, scrolling does not solve the issue for me. Did this behaviour stop for you? Did you find another workaround?

What about closing the terminal and open a new one? Thats how I do it.

Happens almost every time, and especially when running non-interactively, e.g. when running unit tests.
Makes reading warnings/errors impossible