diff --git a/glib/gprint.c b/glib/gprint.c
index 2bff63e22..8e73a1b26 100644
--- a/glib/gprint.c
+++ b/glib/gprint.c
@@ -24,9 +24,18 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 
+#include "gtypes.h"
+#include "gunicodeprivate.h"
 #include "gprintprivate.h"
 #include "gprintfint.h"
 
+#ifndef _WIN32
+#include <unistd.h>
+#else
+#include "gwin32private.h"
+#include <io.h>
+#endif
+
 #define CHAR_IS_SAFE(wc) (!((wc < 0x20 && wc != '\t' && wc != '\n' && wc != '\r') || \
                             (wc == 0x7f) || \
                             (wc >= 0x80 && wc < 0xa0)))
@@ -75,3 +84,163 @@ g_print_convert (const char *string,
         }
     }
 }
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+
+static int
+print_console_nolock (const char *string,
+                      FILE       *stream)
+{
+  HANDLE handle = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (_fileno (stream));
+  size_t size = strlen (string);
+  DWORD written = 0;
+
+  if (size > INT_MAX)
+    return 0;
+
+  /* WriteFile are WriteConsole are limited to DWORD lengths,
+   * but int and DWORD should are of the same size, so we don't
+   * care.
+   */
+  G_STATIC_ASSERT (INT_MAX <= MAXDWORD);
+
+  /* We might also check if the source string is ASCII */
+  if (GetConsoleOutputCP () == CP_UTF8)
+    {
+      /* If the output codepage is UTF-8, we can just call WriteFile,
+       * avoiding a conversion to UTF-16 (which probably will be done
+       * by ConDrv).
+       */
+      /* Note: we cannot use fputs() here. When outputting to the
+       * console, the UCRT converts the passed string to the console
+       * charset, which is UTF-8, but interprets the string in the
+       * LC_CTYPE charset, which can be anything.
+       */
+
+      if (!WriteFile (handle, string, size, &written, NULL))
+        WIN32_API_FAILED ("WriteFile");
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      /* Convert to UTF-16 and output using WriteConsole */
+
+      /* Note: we can't use fputws() with mode _O_U16TEXT because:
+       *
+       * - file descriptors cannot be locked, unlike FILE streams, so
+       *   we cannot set a custom mode on the file descriptor.
+       * - the fputws() implementation is not very good: it outputs codeunit
+       *   by codeunit in a loop, so it's slow [1] and breaks UTF-16 surrogate
+       *   pairs [2].
+       *
+       * [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/18124#issuecomment-2451987873
+       * [2] https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/wprintf-with-_setmode-_O_U16TEXT-or-_O_U/10447076
+       */
+
+      wchar_t buffer[1024];
+      wchar_t *utf16 = NULL;
+      size_t utf16_len = 0;
+      DWORD utf16_written = 0;
+
+      g_utf8_to_utf16_make_valid (string,
+                                  buffer, G_N_ELEMENTS (buffer),
+                                  &utf16, &utf16_len);
+
+      /* The length of the UTF-16 string (in count of gunichar2) cannot be
+       * greater than the length of the UTF-8 string (in count of bytes).
+       * So utf16_len <= size <= INT_MAX <= MAXDWORD.
+       */
+      g_assert (utf16_len <= size);
+
+      if (!WriteConsole (handle, utf16, utf16_len, &utf16_written, NULL))
+        WIN32_API_FAILED ("WriteConsole");
+
+      if (utf16_written < utf16_len)
+        {
+          written = g_utf8_to_utf16_make_valid_backtrack (string, utf16_written);
+        }
+      else
+        {
+          written = size;
+        }
+
+      if (utf16 != buffer)
+        g_free (utf16);
+    }
+
+  if (written > INT_MAX)
+    written = INT_MAX;
+
+  return (int) written;
+}
+
+static int
+print_console (const char *string,
+               FILE       *stream)
+{
+  int ret;
+
+  /* Locking the stream is not important, but leads
+   * to nicer output in case of concurrent writes.
+   */
+  _lock_file (stream);
+
+#if defined (_MSC_VER) || defined (_UCRT)
+  _fflush_nolock (stream);
+#else
+  fflush (stream);
+#endif
+
+  ret = print_console_nolock (string, stream);
+
+  _unlock_file (stream);
+
+  return ret;
+}
+
+#endif /* _WIN32 */
+
+static int
+print_string (char const *string,
+              FILE       *stream)
+{
+  size_t written = fwrite (string, 1, strlen (string), stream);
+
+  return MIN (written, INT_MAX);
+}
+
+int
+g_fputs (char const *string,
+         FILE       *stream)
+{
+  int ret;
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  if (g_win32_file_stream_is_console_output (stream))
+    {
+      ret = print_console (string, stream);
+
+      if (string[ret] != '\0')
+        ret += print_string (&string[ret], stream);
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      ret = print_string (string, stream);
+    }
+#else
+  const char *charset;
+
+  if (isatty (fileno (stream)) &&
+      !g_get_charset (&charset))
+    {
+      char *converted = g_print_convert (string, charset);
+      ret = print_string (converted, stream);
+      g_free (converted);
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      ret = print_string (string, stream);
+    }
+#endif
+
+  return ret;
+}
diff --git a/glib/gprintprivate.h b/glib/gprintprivate.h
index 22c1e4f29..ab31e3b14 100644
--- a/glib/gprintprivate.h
+++ b/glib/gprintprivate.h
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
 
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
 
+int
+g_fputs (const char *string,
+         FILE       *stream);
+
 char *
 g_print_convert (const char *string,
                  const char *charset);