Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When using the Agent to create new code files, everything looks correct in the chat output (Chinese characters display normally). However, after the file is written to the workspace, the actual file content becomes garbled. S…

:upside_down_face: Hundreds of files contain unreadable characters, which is extremely annoying

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known encoding issue on Chinese Windows. Agent Write and StrReplace create files in GBK instead of UTF-8. Root cause: the auto-detect encoding logic picks up GBK from the system environment or existing files and then propagates it to new files, even if the work…

After the file is written to the workspace, the actual file content becomes garbled

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After the file is written to the workspace, the actual file content becomes garbled

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