diff --git a/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/__init__.py b/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/__init__.py
index 68fc5ba4e7..e6d1cee3ad 100644
--- a/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/__init__.py
+++ b/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 """Logging module for lfx package."""
 
+from lfx.log._streams import make_streams_resilient
 from lfx.log.logger import configure, logger
 
+make_streams_resilient()
+
 __all__ = ["configure", "logger"]
diff --git a/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/_streams.py b/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/_streams.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8cd6299aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lfx/src/lfx/log/_streams.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+"""Make process stdout/stderr tolerate characters their console codec cannot encode."""
+
+import contextlib
+import sys
+from typing import Any
+
+
+def _reconfigure(stream: Any) -> None:
+    reconfigure = getattr(stream, "reconfigure", None)
+    if reconfigure is None:
+        return
+    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+        reconfigure(errors="backslashreplace")
+
+
+def make_streams_resilient() -> None:
+    """Escape unencodable characters on write instead of raising.
+
+    Windows consoles default to a legacy code page (cp1252) whose codec raises
+    UnicodeEncodeError on the box-drawing glyphs structlog's ConsoleRenderer
+    emits when formatting a traceback. That second exception is raised inside
+    the logging call itself, so it masks the original error and aborts the
+    request that logged it. ``errors="backslashreplace"`` keeps the stream
+    encoding but escapes anything the code page can't represent, so logging
+    never crashes the caller. The underlying streams are reconfigured too
+    because colorama wraps those same objects, regardless of wrap order.
+    """
+    for stream in (sys.stdout, sys.stderr, sys.__stdout__, sys.__stderr__):
+        _reconfigure(stream)
diff --git a/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/__init__.py b/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96d4bfc78b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Test suite for LFX logging."""
diff --git a/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/test_streams.py b/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/test_streams.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b833e841f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lfx/tests/unit/log/test_streams.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+"""Regression tests for stdout/stderr encoding resilience on Windows consoles."""
+
+import importlib
+import io
+
+import structlog
+from lfx.log._streams import make_streams_resilient
+
+
+def _cp1252_stream() -> tuple[io.TextIOWrapper, io.BytesIO]:
+    """A text stream that behaves like a strict Windows cp1252 console."""
+    raw = io.BytesIO()
+    return io.TextIOWrapper(raw, encoding="cp1252"), raw
+
+
+def test_make_streams_resilient_sets_backslashreplace(monkeypatch):
+    out, _ = _cp1252_stream()
+    err, _ = _cp1252_stream()
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stdout", out)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stderr", err)
+
+    make_streams_resilient()
+
+    assert out.errors == "backslashreplace"
+    assert err.errors == "backslashreplace"
+
+
+def test_logging_exception_to_cp1252_stdout_does_not_crash(monkeypatch):
+    """A logged traceback must never raise UnicodeEncodeError on a cp1252 console.
+
+    structlog's ConsoleRenderer emits box-drawing glyphs that cp1252 cannot
+    encode; without the resilience shim the encode error is raised inside the
+    logging call, masking the original error and aborting the request.
+    """
+    stream, raw = _cp1252_stream()
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stdout", stream)
+
+    make_streams_resilient()
+
+    logmod = importlib.import_module("lfx.log.logger")
+    logmod.configure(log_level="ERROR", cache=False)
+    log = structlog.get_logger("test")
+
+    msg = "THIS IS A TEST ERROR MESSAGE"
+    try:
+        raise ValueError(msg)
+    except ValueError:
+        log.exception("boom")
+
+    stream.flush()
+    rendered = raw.getvalue().decode("cp1252", errors="replace")
+    assert "THIS IS A TEST ERROR MESSAGE" in rendered
+
+
+def test_reconfigure_is_safe_when_stream_is_none(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stdout", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.stderr", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.__stdout__", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("sys.__stderr__", None)
+
+    make_streams_resilient()