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Summary

  • Decode Windows service-manager output as UTF-16 first, strict UTF-8 second, and only then a locale-bounded legacy code page for Korean or Windows-1252 locales.
  • Make the PowerShell identity and known-folder lookup return UTF-16LE data inside an ASCII Base64 envelope, so redirected output no longer depends on the active console code page.
  • Add byte-level regressions for Korean, Western, unsupported legacy-codepage, scheduled-task, and PowerShell path handling.

Closes #1573

Verification

  • bun test tests/windows-text-decoding.test.ts tests/windows-popup-fix.test.ts tests/codex-service-manager-probe-hardening.test.ts — 19 passed
  • bun run typecheck
  • bun run privacy:scan
  • git diff --check
  • bun run test — 11,666 passed, 11 skipped; one unrelated loaded-host timing watchdog in tests/bridge-lifecycle.test.ts fired at 4 seconds
  • bun test tests/bridge-lifecycle.test.ts repeated three times after the full run — 15/15 passed each time; the previously timed-out stall case completed in about 1.06 seconds on every rerun

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Windows identity detection for non-ASCII paths and Unicode output.
    • Enhanced Windows text decoding across UTF-8, UTF-16, Korean, and Western European encodings.
    • Fixed service and scheduled-task inspection for Korean profile paths.
    • Added safer handling for malformed or unsupported text data.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for Unicode identity output, locale-specific decoding, and Windows task configuration parsing.

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Windows PowerShell identity output now uses strict UTF-16LE Base64 decoding. A shared locale-aware Windows text decoder handles service-manager output, including Korean CP949 data. Windows probes pass the locale through all relevant decoding paths, with regression coverage for identity and service ownership paths.

Changes

Windows identity output

Layer / File(s) Summary
PowerShell encoding and strict decoding
src/codex/user-identity.ts, tests/windows-popup-fix.test.ts
PowerShell emits evaluated identity values as ASCII Base64 over UTF-16LE. The decoder validates UTF-8 transport, canonical Base64, byte alignment, and malformed values before powershellValue uses the result. Tests cover non-ASCII paths and command construction at lines 42–62.

Shared Windows text decoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Locale-aware decoding utility
src/lib/windows-text.ts, tests/windows-text-decoding.test.ts
decodeWindowsTextBytes detects UTF-16LE/BE, accepts strict UTF-8, selects euc-kr for Korean locales and restricted windows-1252 locales, and preserves replacement fallback behavior. Tests cover UTF-8, CP949, Windows-1252, unsupported locales, and UTF-16LE XML.

Service-manager integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Windows probe decoding paths
src/service-manager-probe.ts, tests/codex-service-manager-probe-hardening.test.ts
Windows probes receive optional windowsLocale data and use the shared decoder for scheduled-task queries, listings, staged XML, launchers, wrappers, and WinSW XML. The regression test verifies Korean CP949 scheduler XML preserves both service home paths.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7f6dd

If locale detection fails, localized Windows output may be decoded with Windows-1252 and silently corrupt profile paths. The risk is bounded and the PR remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to skip legacy decoding when no locale is available.

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Suggested reviewers: lidge-jun, wibias

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving localized Windows profile paths.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address both UTF-8 decoding failures in issue #1573 and add regression tests for Korean and localized Windows paths.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The shared decoder, locale plumbing, PowerShell encoding, and tests directly support localized Windows path preservation.
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In `@src/lib/windows-text.ts`:
- Around line 25-30: Update currentWindowsLocale to return null when locale
detection fails instead of defaulting to en-US, and adjust the legacy decoding
flow to skip legacyEncodingForLocale when no locale is available so the
replacement-preserving UTF-8 fallback remains active.
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  • src/codex/user-identity.ts
  • src/lib/windows-text.ts
  • src/service-manager-probe.ts
  • tests/codex-service-manager-probe-hardening.test.ts
  • tests/windows-popup-fix.test.ts
  • tests/windows-text-decoding.test.ts

Comment thread src/lib/windows-text.ts
Comment on lines +25 to +30
function currentWindowsLocale(): string {
try {
return Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale;
} catch {
return "en-US";
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not select Windows-1252 when locale detection fails.

If Intl.DateTimeFormat() throws, currentWindowsLocale() returns "en-US". legacyEncodingForLocale("en-US") then selects "windows-1252". Windows-1252 accepts arbitrary byte values, so CP949 or unsupported-codepage output can be silently corrupted instead of retaining the replacement-preserving UTF-8 fallback described in src/lib/windows-text.ts.

Return null from the failure path. Skip legacy decoding when no locale is available.

Proposed fix
-function currentWindowsLocale(): string {
+function currentWindowsLocale(): string | null {
   try {
     return Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale;
   } catch {
-    return "en-US";
+    return null;
   }
 }
...
   const locale = options.locale ?? currentWindowsLocale();
-  const legacyEncoding = legacyEncodingForLocale(locale);
+  const legacyEncoding = locale === null ? null : legacyEncodingForLocale(locale);
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function currentWindowsLocale(): string {
try {
return Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale;
} catch {
return "en-US";
}
function currentWindowsLocale(): string | null {
try {
return Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale;
} catch {
return null;
}
}
...
const locale = options.locale ?? currentWindowsLocale();
const legacyEncoding = locale === null ? null : legacyEncodingForLocale(locale);
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In `@src/lib/windows-text.ts` around lines 25 - 30, Update currentWindowsLocale to
return null when locale detection fails instead of defaulting to en-US, and
adjust the legacy decoding flow to skip legacyEncodingForLocale when no locale
is available so the replacement-preserving UTF-8 fallback remains active.

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[Repository bug audit · 2026-08-14]

The locale-safe decoding design is good: deterministic PowerShell Base64/UTF-16 output avoids console-codepage ambiguity, and the bounded CP949/Windows-1252 fallback is preferable to replacement-character guessing.

Blocking integration issue: this head still builds the direct identity command with -WindowStyle Hidden, while #1674 removes that exact argv pair because it fails under the affected Bun/Windows path. Merge #1674 first, then rebase this branch and preserve the Base64/UTF-16 command without reintroducing -WindowStyle Hidden.

After the rebase, rerun the Korean-profile-path/service-manager tests and an exact Windows smoke covering ocx sync, scheduled-task ownership, and LocalAppData identity resolution.

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