claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG] Characters rendering incorrectly in chat interface after recent update

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What's Wrong?

Since a recent update, characters in Claude Code's chat interface are not rendering correctly. Special characters, accented letters (e.g. à, è, ì, ò, ù) and punctuation appear malformed or missing in Claude's responses.

Expected: All characters display correctly Actual: Characters appear corrupted/malformed OS: macOS 25.4.0

What Should Happen?

Expected: All characters display correctly Actual: Characters appear corrupted/malformed OS: macOS 25.4.0

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Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code
  2. Start a conversation
  3. Characters in the response text appear incorrectly rendered

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

No, this never worked

Last Working Version

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Claude Code Version

2.1.145 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

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