From fc2fa65f0dca24ff8af3b5de88e87cadeb0d81a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: saphid <4596216+saphid@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:56:03 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Run the server in UTF-8 mode on every platform

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/main.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/main.js b/app/main.js
index d9099b9..ada05d1 100644
--- a/app/main.js
+++ b/app/main.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function ping(target) {
 
 async function startServer() {
   const env = { ...process.env, PATH: await loginPath(), PYTHONUNBUFFERED: "1", PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE: "1",
-                PYTHONIOENCODING: "utf-8", FRAME_CONTROL_APP: "1" };
+                PYTHONIOENCODING: "utf-8", PYTHONUTF8: "1", FRAME_CONTROL_APP: "1" };  // UTF-8 even on Windows
   python = await findPython(env);
   if (!python) throw new Error(`Frame Control needs Python 3.8 or later. ${PYTHON_HELP}`);
   if (!await hasSsh(env)) throw new Error(`Frame Control needs the ssh command. ${SSH_HELP}`);