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1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
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Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.299,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
Text can be stored in different encodings, the rules that turn bytes into characters. When Claude Code reads a stream of text line by line and the start of it looks like UTF-16LE, an encoding common on Windows, it now decodes it as UTF-16LE. Before, such input came out as garbled characters.
Why
Output or files in UTF-16 should now read as normal text rather than a jumble of symbols.
