pi-web-ui 0.2.11 → 0.2.12

package/bin/pi-web-ui.mjs

@@ -420,6 +420,12 @@ function serviceEnv(port, cwd, dataDir) {
 	// Interactive Windows tasks inherit the user's PATH; only systemd/launchd
 	// run with a minimal environment that needs an explicit PATH.
 	if (!isWin) env.PATH = process.env.PATH ?? "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin";
+	// Same for the locale: launchd/systemd drop LANG/LC_ALL, and a C-locale
+	// shell garbles multibyte input in the terminal (UTF-8 continuation
+	// bytes 0x80–0x9F rendered as C1 control chars). Bake the installing
+	// shell's locale into the service env so spawned terminals are UTF-8.
+	if (!isWin && process.env.LANG) env.LANG = process.env.LANG;
+	if (!isWin && process.env.LC_ALL) env.LC_ALL = process.env.LC_ALL;
 	if (dataDir) env.PI_WEB_DATA_DIR = dataDir;
 	return env;
 }

package/dist/server/terminals.js

@@ -113,6 +113,19 @@ const SHELL = isWindows
     : process.env.SHELL || "bash";
 /** `-i` is POSIX-only; cmd.exe / powershell.exe start interactively on their own. */
 const SHELL_ARGS = isWindows ? [] : ["-i"];
+/**
+ * Environment for spawned shells. System services (launchd/systemd) run with
+ * no locale variables, which puts the shell in the C locale: its line editor
+ * then renders UTF-8 continuation bytes 0x80–0x9F as C1 control characters
+ * (e.g. `�<0091><0098>` for 员), garbling Chinese input in the terminal.
+ * Default a UTF-8 locale so multibyte text round-trips.
+ */
+function shellEnv() {
+    const env = { ...process.env, TERM: "xterm-256color" };
+    if (!env.LANG && !env.LC_ALL)
+        env.LANG = "en_US.UTF-8";
+    return env;
+}
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // spawn-helper permission repair (node-pty macOS prebuilds)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -252,7 +265,7 @@ export class TerminalManager {
                 cols: Math.max(2, Math.floor(cols) || 80),
                 rows: Math.max(2, Math.floor(rows) || 24),
                 cwd: abs,
-                env: { ...process.env, TERM: "xterm-256color" },
+                env: shellEnv(),
             });
         }
         catch (err) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "pi-web-ui",
-  "version": "0.2.11",
+  "version": "0.2.12",
   "description": "Web chat interface for the pi coding agent, powered by the pi SDK (@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent) — one-command run, Docker/systemd/launchd deployable",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",