From 6a5afa3ba9475eeb9c60ada0c44dbb65a8b0b269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Wolniewicz <4850809+frizikk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:27:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(tui): decode slash worker streams as UTF-8

---
 ...test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 tui_gateway/server.py                         |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py b/tests/test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py
index ae13ba1a44f4c..13dbb70243f60 100644
--- a/tests/test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py
+++ b/tests/test_windows_subprocess_no_window_flags.py
@@ -399,3 +399,26 @@ def fake_popen(cmd, **kwargs):
 
     assert captured[0][0][:3] == [server.sys.executable, "-m", "tui_gateway.slash_worker"]
     assert captured[0][1]["creationflags"] == _CREATE_NO_WINDOW
+
+
+def test_tui_slash_worker_decodes_subprocess_streams_as_utf8(monkeypatch):
+    from tui_gateway import server
+
+    captured = []
+
+    class _Proc:
+        stdin = SimpleNamespace()
+        stdout = []
+        stderr = []
+
+    def fake_popen(cmd, **kwargs):
+        captured.append((cmd, kwargs))
+        return _Proc()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(server.subprocess, "Popen", fake_popen)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(server.threading, "Thread", lambda *a, **k: SimpleNamespace(start=lambda: None))
+
+    server._SlashWorker("session-key", "model-x")
+
+    assert captured[0][1]["encoding"] == "utf-8"
+    assert captured[0][1]["errors"] == "replace"
diff --git a/tui_gateway/server.py b/tui_gateway/server.py
index 0a87f133d4a0d..fc88a36625f7d 100644
--- a/tui_gateway/server.py
+++ b/tui_gateway/server.py
@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@ def __init__(self, session_key: str, model: str, profile_home: str | None = None
             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
             stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
             text=True,
+            encoding="utf-8",
+            errors="replace",
             bufsize=1,
             cwd=os.getcwd(),
             env=env,