diff --git a/examples/command/command.cpp b/examples/command/command.cpp
index 11ed9ed6bd3..49f8f755bb4 100644
--- a/examples/command/command.cpp
+++ b/examples/command/command.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@
 #include <thread>
 #include <vector>
 #include <map>
+#include <chrono>
+
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+#define NOMINMAX
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
 
 // command-line parameters
 struct whisper_params {
@@ -679,6 +685,10 @@ static int process_general_transcription(struct whisper_context * ctx, audio_asy
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
+#endif
+
     whisper_params params;
 
     if (whisper_params_parse(argc, argv, params) == false) {
diff --git a/examples/lsp/lsp.cpp b/examples/lsp/lsp.cpp
index 803cd6d55da..5d65aced33b 100644
--- a/examples/lsp/lsp.cpp
+++ b/examples/lsp/lsp.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include <deque>
 #include <set>
+#include <chrono>
 
 using json = nlohmann::json;
 
diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index beef57dde0a..21ae2594777 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <sstream>
+#include <chrono>
 
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
 #pragma warning(disable: 4244 4267) // possible loss of data
diff --git a/examples/stream/stream.cpp b/examples/stream/stream.cpp
index 190f68a2c3b..bd7e05c1d17 100644
--- a/examples/stream/stream.cpp
+++ b/examples/stream/stream.cpp
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@
 #include <thread>
 #include <vector>
 #include <fstream>
+#include <chrono>
 
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+#define NOMINMAX
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
 
 // command-line parameters
 struct whisper_params {
@@ -113,6 +118,10 @@ void whisper_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const whisper_params & para
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
+#endif
+
     whisper_params params;
 
     if (whisper_params_parse(argc, argv, params) == false) {
@@ -157,6 +166,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     cparams.use_gpu    = params.use_gpu;
     cparams.flash_attn = params.flash_attn;
 
+    fprintf(stderr, "whisper_init_from_file_with_params ...\n");
     struct whisper_context * ctx = whisper_init_from_file_with_params(params.model.c_str(), cparams);
 
     std::vector<float> pcmf32    (n_samples_30s, 0.0f);
@@ -166,6 +176,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     std::vector<whisper_token> prompt_tokens;
 
     // print some info about the processing
+    fprintf(stderr, "whisper_init_from_file_with_params ok\n");
+
     {
         fprintf(stderr, "\n");
         if (!whisper_is_multilingual(ctx)) {
diff --git a/examples/talk-llama/talk-llama.cpp b/examples/talk-llama/talk-llama.cpp
index dcdaec487cb..d40667bb332 100644
--- a/examples/talk-llama/talk-llama.cpp
+++ b/examples/talk-llama/talk-llama.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include <regex>
 #include <sstream>
+#include <chrono>
+
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+#define NOMINMAX
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
 
 static std::vector<llama_token> llama_tokenize(struct llama_context * ctx, const std::string & text, bool add_bos) {
     const llama_model * model = llama_get_model(ctx);
@@ -272,6 +278,10 @@ The transcript only includes text, it does not include markup like HTML and Mark
 {0}{4})";
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
+#endif
+
     whisper_params params;
 
     if (whisper_params_parse(argc, argv, params) == false) {
diff --git a/examples/wchess/libwchess/WChess.cpp b/examples/wchess/libwchess/WChess.cpp
index d9f066962ad..5da0345a610 100644
--- a/examples/wchess/libwchess/WChess.cpp
+++ b/examples/wchess/libwchess/WChess.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "grammar-parser.h"
 #include "common.h"
 #include <thread>
+#include <chrono>
 
 WChess::WChess(whisper_context * ctx,
         const whisper_full_params & wparams,