It’s about the Chinese garbled text issue in the source code generated by the Cursor editor, can you take a look and fix it?

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Key takeaway: it has nothing to do with the file extension. Earlier cursorAgentEditExtractor.ts was UTF-8 only because it was later rewritten by StrReplace and went through a different write path. The real reason is that when the Cursor agent creates new files, its write path uses GBK/CP936 encoding for the zh-CN locale and ignores all files.encoding settings. This is Cursor-side behavior and there’s no config switch to change it. So trying to fix it via settings just won’t work.

That’s the conclusion from Cursor opus4.8. It’s been going on for months and still hasn’t been solved.

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cursor encoding bug report

product：cursor ide

Describe：Cursor agent mode，The Agent written files default GBK，But I hope Utf-8，and try much way to config，This problem always appear

Steps：Let agent do something，for example，Agent create a new File, must appear the GBK encoding bug

Expected Behavior：default utf-8 encoding

Operating System : Windows 10
**Version Information：**Version: 3.7.19 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: 80c653c2c3528e65016a0d304b54486084b470b0
Date: 2026-06-07T01:42:56.126Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

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Hey, this is a known issue: on systems with the zh-CN locale and the GBK 936 code page, the agent write and StrReplace tools write files in a non-UTF-8 encoding, so Chinese characters turn into mojibake. We’ve logged the bug, but I can’t share an ETA for a fix yet.

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If there’s an update on the fix, I’ll reply in the thread. Also, if you can, please add your Cursor version via Menu → About Cursor → Copy. It’ll help link your case to the others.