hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix Bug: Cannot send messages with pure Chinese characters in Desktop — requires punctuation to trigger send

Bug: Cannot send messages with pure Chinese characters in Desktop — requires punctuation to trigger send

Environment:

• Platform: macOS 26.5
• Hermes version: latest (via Desktop app)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Hermes Desktop
2. Type a message consisting only of Chinese characters (e.g., 你好)
3. Press Enter or click Send

Expected behavior: Message should be sent normally, same as English input.

Actual behavior: Nothing happens when pressing Enter / clicking Send. The input stays in the text box and is not submitted. Adding any non-Chinese character (punctuation like 。, a space, or an English letter) to the message immediately allows it to be sent.

Notes:

• This happens consistently with pure Chinese text of any length
• Mixing Chinese + English or Chinese + punctuation works fine
• The CLI version (hermes in terminal via prompt_toolkit) does not have this issue — only the Desktop GUI

Possible cause: Likely a character-encoding or input-validation issue in the Desktop client — the send trigger may be checking for a minimum content condition that pure CJK characters don't satisfy (e.g., a regex that doesn't match Unicode ranges outside ASCII).

Workaround: Append a Chinese period 。 or a space at the end of each message before sending.