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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

Better handling of non-English characters in file names and displayed text

Claude Code now strips broken characters from displayed text and normalises file names before suggesting similar ones

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What
  • Cleaned-up text: when Claude Code removes invisible control characters from text it shows, it now also removes "lone surrogates", broken halves of characters that need two parts to display.
  • Similar file suggestions: when a file is not found and Claude Code looks for one with a similar name, it now puts names into a single standard Unicode form first, so the same name typed with different character encodings matches.
  • Uppercasing: a helper now uppercases a non-English letter only when the result is still a single character.
Why

These are small fixes for file names that use non-English characters and for text Claude Code cleans before showing it.

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