diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index be2d92919..03212cd25 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# 2.3.3
+
+Bugfixes:
+* Fix `--help` doesn't work in Windows and some other platforms
+
 # 2.3.2
 
 Bugfixes:
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c12b8df0d..20a65e01f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12.0) # target_link_libraries with OBJECT libs & project homepage url
 
 project(fastfetch
-    VERSION 2.3.2
+    VERSION 2.3.3
     LANGUAGES C
     DESCRIPTION "Fast neofetch-like system information tool"
     HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch"
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ endif()
 #############
 
 function(fastfetch_encode_c_string STR OUTVAR)
-    string(REGEX REPLACE "\n$" "" TEMP "${STR}") # Remove trailing newline
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "\n$" "" TEMP "${STR}")  # Remove trailing newline
     string(REPLACE "\\" "\\\\" TEMP "${TEMP}")    # Escape backslashes
     string(REPLACE "\n" "\\n" TEMP "${TEMP}")     # Replace newlines with \n
     string(REPLACE "\"" "\\\"" TEMP "${TEMP}")    # Replace quotes with \"
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ endfunction(fastfetch_load_text)
 find_package(Python)
 if(Python_FOUND)
     # Minify JSON string. `io.open(0,encoding='utf-8')` is needed to avoid encoding issues on Windows
-    execute_process(COMMAND ${Python_EXECUTABLE} -c "import io,json,sys;json.dump(json.load(io.open(0,encoding='utf-8')),sys.stdout,separators=(',', ':'),ensure_ascii=False)"
+    execute_process(COMMAND ${Python_EXECUTABLE} -c "import json,sys;json.dump(json.load(sys.stdin),sys.stdout,separators=(',',':'))"
                     INPUT_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/data/help.json"
                     OUTPUT_VARIABLE DATATEXT_JSON_HELP)
 else()
diff --git a/src/data/help.json b/src/data/help.json
index f63b3d95f..f72a94a2d 100644
--- a/src/data/help.json
+++ b/src/data/help.json
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@
             "desc": "Set the character to use in elapsed part of percentage bars",
             "arg": {
                 "type": "str",
-                "default": "■"
+                "default": "\u25a0"
             }
         },
         {
@@ -1290,12 +1290,12 @@
             "arg": {
                 "type": "enum",
                 "enum": {
-                    "block": "███",
-                    "circle": "●",
-                    "diamond": "◆",
-                    "triangle": "▲",
-                    "square": "■",
-                    "star": "★"
+                    "block": "\u2588\u2588\u2588",
+                    "circle": "\u25cf",
+                    "diamond": "\u25c6",
+                    "triangle": "\u25b2",
+                    "square": "\u25a0",
+                    "star": "\u2605"
                 },
                 "default": "block"
             }