Strange characters 'qw♥' sent in chat

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Describe the Bug

I’m receiving this message as last command executed:

‘qw♥’ is not recognized as an internal or external command.

The model is trying to execute this sequence of characters: q^D^C^

Latest Cursor IDE, Gemini 2.5 Pro preview 05-06.
Operating System: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce

Latest Cursor IDE, Gemini 2.5 Pro preview 05-06.
Operating System: Windows 10

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Cursor IDE sequence of characters
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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

this issue is on Windows users, there are many articles about this problem but it’s still not solved.

3

FWIW, the heart symbol is ASCII 3, associated with Ctrl-C.

I wrote a similar bug report, not knowing other people have found it. The Ctrl-C issued by Cursor is actually stopping the terminal command at random places, and for me, that makes Cursor generally unusable.

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Hi everyone here, the issue is being worked on by Cursor Team.

I think we also have a few duplicate posts on this so the efforts on communicating this properly becomes a bit more tricky.

here are similar cases