Claude Code was replacing every non-ASCII character in non-UTF-8 files. Now it refuses.

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 11 Oct, 16:23 UTC

Claude Code was replacing every non-ASCII character in a file it could not read as UTF-8, and the repair Anthropic shipped is not a better conversion. It is a refusal. The changelog entry for version 2.1.296 reads: "Fixed Edit and NotebookEdit replacing every non-ASCII character in files that are…

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• T2Claude Code was replacing every non-ASCII character in non-UTF-8 files. Now it refuses.UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED11 Oct, 16:23