Panic on UTF-8 Korean character boundary when editing YAML description
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Dec 23, 2025 by cafe24-mcpark Closed Feb 14, 2026
Bug Description
When editing a YAML frontmatter description field containing Korean text, Claude Code panics with a UTF-8 byte boundary error.
Version
- Claude Code: 2.0.76
- OS: macOS Darwin 24.6.0
Error Message
thread '<unnamed>' (4457369) panicked at /rustc/ed61e7d7e242494fb7057f2657300d9e77bb4fcb/library/core/src/str/mod.rs:833:21:
byte index 120 is not a char boundary; it is inside '구' (bytes 118..121) of `시판, SEO), libLog 로깅 시스템, Admin Menu 아키텍처, 언어셋 패키지 버전 관리, Milkp 디버깅 도구, PHPUnit 테스트 패턴(p() request 키, util() Object Pool, 디버깅) 등 EC 개발에 필수적인 인프라 `
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
fatal runtime error: failed to initiate panic, error 5, aborting
Steps to Reproduce
- Create/edit a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter
- The
descriptionfield contains long Korean text (multibyte UTF-8 characters) - Use Claude to edit/append text to the description field
- When the diff confirmation dialog appears, the application crashes
Expected Behavior
No crash. The application should properly handle UTF-8 multibyte characters when calculating string boundaries for display.
Context
The crash occurs during the "Save file to continue" confirmation step. It appears the code is slicing the string at a byte index that falls in the middle of a Korean character ('구' which spans bytes 118-121).
Workaround
Editing the file manually in VS Code works. The issue only occurs when Claude Code tries to display the diff.
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