Activity Monitor shows garbled process name on macOS (Japanese locale)
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Activity 3 comments · opened Mar 9, 2026 · closed Mar 13, 2026
On macOS with Japanese locale, the Activity Monitor displays a garbled process name like "莉ョ諠ウ繝槭す繝ウ繧オ繝シ繝薙せ" (likely "推論マシンサービス" with broken encoding) instead of a readable name like "Claude Code".
Environment
- macOS (Darwin 25.2.0)
- Japanese locale
Expected
Process name should display as "Claude Code" or at least be properly encoded.
Actual
Process name appears as mojibake (文字化け) in Activity Monitor.
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