Description: When using Codex Agent on Windows (VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf), files containing Cyrillic comments are displayed incorrectly (garbled characters). The agent appears to invoke powershell.exe by default, which uses ANSI instead of UTF-8. Expected behavior: Files with UTF-8 encoding …

Incorrect Cyrillic rendering in Codex Agent on Windows due to PowerShell 5.1 default ANSI encoding

lubacareer September 16, 2025, 5:31pm 3

Same problem here. It seems that it happens not right off the bat, but after a while.

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