fix: Windows crash on startup — missing UTF-8 encoding for history.jsonl#5
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On Windows, Python defaults to the system encoding (cp1252) when opening files without an explicit encoding parameter. Since Claude Code writes history.jsonl as UTF-8, this causes a UnicodeDecodeError on startup: UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters This matches the encoding pattern already used throughout the rest of server.py for JSONL file reads.
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…n re-renders - Force UTF-8 stdout/stderr at startup for Windows compatibility - Include open(HISTORY_FILE) encoding fix from PR zihenghe04#5 - Add tooltip theme to all ApexCharts instances (fixes white-on-white in dark mode) - Re-render report, git stats, MCP stats, tools on language toggle - Translate hardcoded 'msgs' and '/day' strings
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Fix also included in PR 6, so will close this PR. |
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open(HISTORY_FILE)on line 4527 crashes on Windows withUnicodeDecodeErrorbecause Python defaults tocp1252instead of UTF-8encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'to match the pattern already used throughout the rest ofserver.pySteps to reproduce
python server.pyUnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 2-5Fix
One-line change — consistent with how all other
open()calls inserver.pyalready handle JSONL files.Test plan
/api/overviewreturns correct data after fix