Puppet package provider on windows fails if non-UTF8 characters are in Uninstall products name value

We have a handful of windows nodes that are experiencing an issue with the package provider being able to enumerate current packages.

"puppet resource package"
or
"package

"

Here's an example error:

Could not prefetch package provider 'windows': U+00AE to IBM437 in conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 to IBM437

Running "wmic product get name" returns all of the names appropriately, and some have odd non-ascii characters in it. Removing the odd looking characters based products from the registry resolves the issue.

Downgrading to 3.7.4 resolved the issue, which is odd, as i couldn't find where in the code path that a change was introduced that might cause this...