Activity Monitor shows garbled process name on macOS (Japanese locale)

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 9, 2026 by ryg35 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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