### Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched [existing issues](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Abug) and this hasn't been reported yet - [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) - [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code ### What's Wrong? explain that Claude Code corrupted your file due to a PowerShell encoding bug and that you had to spend credits to fix a problem the tool caused. Cred

[BUG] PowerShell encoding bug and that you had to spend credits to fix a problem

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened May 11, 2026 by games4playzone-beep Closed Jun 10, 2026

Preflight Checklist

[x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
[x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
[x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

explain that Claude Code corrupted your file due
to a PowerShell encoding bug and that you had to spend credits to fix a problem the tool caused. Credit refunds or compensation
for tool-caused issues is a reasonable request.

The file is safe right now — the partial repair is already saved to C:\gameplayzone\index.html. Even if credits run out today,

you won't lose the progress made so far.

When you resume, a new session can pick up exactly where things left off — the remaining work is straightforward and won't

require re-explaining the whole corruption chain.

The corruption was caused by a known PowerShell 5.1 encoding quirk on Hebrew-locale Windows — something that should have been
guarded against. That's on the tool, not on you

What Should Happen?

re imburse my credit time

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

what happened to all the text in the main site? i see squars for font and not english text

● The PowerShell Get-Content / Out-File step corrupted the file encoding — PowerShell 5.1 read the UTF-8 file as Windows-1252,
garbling every multi-byte character (box-drawing chars, emoji, accents, etc.), then wrote it back. Let me check the damage and fix
it.

● PowerShell(# Check the BOM / first bytes…)
⎿ First 4 bytes: 239 187 191 60
File size: 334 KB
Sample around 'bigbird': + meDetail('bigbird')"><span class="icon">נ¦</span>Big Bird<

● The file bytes confirm it's UTF-8 with BOM (EF BB BF), and the sample shows garbled characters. PowerShell Get-Content read the
UTF-8 file as Windows-1252 (each byte → wrong char), then Out-File -Encoding utf8 re-encoded those wrong chars. I can fully reverse
this because the mapping is lossless — I'll convert each character back through Windows-1252 to recover the original UTF-8 bytes.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
PowerShell command

# Reverse the encoding corruption:
# Original file was UTF-8. PowerShell read each byte as Windows-1252 char, then wrote as UTF-8.
# Reversal: read corrupted file as UTF-8 → encode each char back through Windows-1252 → original UTF-8 bytes

# Original file was UTF-8. PowerShell read each byte as Windows-1252 char, then wrote as UTF-8.
# Reversal: read corrupted file as UTF-8 → encode each char back through Windows-1252 → original UTF-8 bytes

Added openGarden() to index.html that opens garden.html in a new tab (same pattern as CorridorX)

The game now opens in its own tab and has all the features: rarity system, mutation mechanic, Garden Tokens, NPCs tab with daily
quests, and Token Shop.

✻ Brewed for 7m 2s

what happened to all the text in the main site? i see squars for font and not english text

● PowerShell(# Check the BOM / first bytes…)
⎿ First 4 bytes: 239 187 191 60
File size: 334 KB
Sample around 'bigbird': + meDetail('bigbird')"><span class="icon">נ¦</span>Big Bird<

● PowerShell(# Reverse the encoding corruption:…)
⎿ Found box-drawing char (E2 95 90) at byte offset: 0
Written. Size: 316 KB

● The offset-0 result is suspicious — let me verify the file actually recovered correctly:

● PowerShell($bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\gameplayzone\index.html')…)
⎿ Waiting…

$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\gameplayzone\index.html')

what happened to all the text in the main site? i see squars for font and not english text

● PowerShell(# Check the BOM / first bytes…)
⎿ First 4 bytes: 239 187 191 60
File size: 334 KB
Sample around 'bigbird': + meDetail('bigbird')"><span class="icon">נ¦</span>Big Bird<

● PowerShell(# Reverse the encoding corruption:…)
⎿ Found box-drawing char (E2 95 90) at byte offset: 0
Written. Size: 316 KB

● The offset-0 result is suspicious — let me verify the file actually recovered correctly:

● PowerShell($bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\gameplayzone\index.html')…)
⎿ First 6 bytes: 60 33 68 79 67 84
No BOM (good)
First 60 chars: <!DOCTYPE html>
… +5 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

╭─── Claude Code v2.1.138 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
╭─── Claude Code v2.1.138 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │ Tips for getting started │
│ Welcome back Shai! │ Run /init to create a CLAUDE.md file with instructions for Claude │
│ │ Tips for getting started │
│ Welcome back Shai! │ Run /init to create a CLAUDE.md file with instructions for Claude │
│ │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│ ▐▛███▜▌ │ What's new │
│ ▝▜█████▛▘ │ Internal fixes │
│ ▘▘ ▝▝ │ [VSCode] Fixed extension failing to activate on Windows │
│ Sonnet 4.6 · Claude Pro · paddlehappy@gmail.com's │ Added CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY_FOR_OTEL to re-enable the sessio… │
│ Organization │ /release-notes for more │
│ C:\gameplayzone │ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

✻ Conversation compacted (ctrl+o for history)

⎿ Referenced file index.html
⎿ Referenced file garden.html
⎿ Referenced file corridorx.html

Read 1 file, recalled 1 memory (ctrl+o to expand)

● Let me read the full file to map the corruption extent.

Searched for 2 patterns, read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

● Let me search the original transcript for the GAMES array to find the correct emoji.

Searched memories (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ id:'bigbird',name:'Big Bird',emoji:'🐦',bg:'linear-gradient(135deg,#060d16,#0a1a2e)',\n1234\t desc:'Eat, grow and explore
4 magical worlds. Avoid pipes, collect food, find portals!',\n1235\t genre:'Arcade',badge:'new',free:true,players:634,ra
ting:4.5,\n1236\t controls:'Space / Tap to flap. Avoid obstacles, eat food to grow.',\n1237\t difficulty:'Hard'},\n1238
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b948c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Error: Exit code 1
Exception calling "ReadAllText" with "2" argument(s): "Could not find file
'C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b948c80016fa.jsonl'."
At line:1 char:1

$content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\proje ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : FileNotFoundException

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
… +5 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ id:'tetris',name:'Neon Tetris',emoji:'🟦',bg:'linear-gradient(135deg,#050510,#0a0a2e)',\n1262\t desc:'The ultimate Neon T
etris experience — 20 levels, combos, ghost pieces, hold queue, and stunning visual effects. Are you good enough to clear L
evel 20?',\n1263\t genre:'Puzzle',badge:'hot',free:true,players:1840,rating:4.9,\n1264\t controls:'← → to move, ↑ to ro
… +22 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● Now let me get the leaderboard tabs and other UI sections from the transcript.

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ === OCCURRENCE 0 at pos 984207 ===
lb-tabs { display:flex; gap:0; border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); }\n212:.lb-tab { flex:1; padding:12px; text-align:cen
ter; font-size:.82rem; font-weight:700; color:var(--text3); cursor:pointer; transition:all .2s; border-bottom:2px solid tra
… +15 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ pos: 1098814
flex-wrap:wrap;\">\n <div class=\"lb-tab active\" onclick=\"switchLbTab('total',this)\">All-Time</div>\n
<div class=\"lb-tab\" onclick=\"switchLbTab('mazewar',this)\">🌀 CorridorX</div>\n <div class=\"lb-tab\" onclick=\
… +5 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Error: Exit code 1
<title>GamePlayZone – Free Games, Real Fun</title>\n10\t<link href=\"https://fonts.googleapis.com/cs

Exception calling "Substring" with "2" argument(s): "StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex"
At line:8 char:1

$content.Substring($idx2, 400)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentOutOfRangeException

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ ---
DAILY_CHALLENGES=[\n1292\t {id:'d1',icon:'🏃',color:'#6c63ff',game:'skydash',title:'Score 500 in Sky Dash',desc:'Channel y
our inner runner',goal:500,reward:50},\n1293\t {id:'d2',icon:'🐦',color:'#38bdf8',game:'bigbird',title:'Play 3 rounds of B
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ STICKER_PACKS={\n1298\t emoji:['😀','😂','🥳','😎','🤩','😍','🥺','😤','😱','🤯','😴','🤑','🤠','😈','🤖'],\n1299\t game:
['🎮','🏆','🎯','🎲','⚔️','🛡️','💣','🔫','🏅','🥇','🎪','🎠','🎡','🎢','🎭'],\n1300\t fun:['🎉','🎊','🔥','💥','✨','⚡','
🌈','🦄','🍕','🍔','🍦','🎸','🎺','🎻','🥁'],\n1301\t react:['👍','👎','❤️','💔','😂','😮','😢','😡','👏','🙏','💪','🤝','
… +10 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ 4-b944c80016fa.jsonl\", [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)\n# Find chat rooms\n$idx = $content.IndexOf(\"'#general'\")\nif ($idx
-ge 0) { $content.Substring([Math]::Max(0,$idx-50), 600) }\nWrite-Host \"---\"\n# Find daily challenges \n$idx2 = $conten
t.IndexOf(\"DAILY_CHALLENGES\")\nif ($idx2 -ge 0) { $content.Substring($idx2, 400) }","description":"Find chat rooms and da
… +4 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

Searched for 1 pattern (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ <button class=\"chat-room-btn active\" onclick=\"switchRoom('general',this)\">🌐 General</button>\n811\t <button class=
\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('skydash',this)\">🏃 Sky Dash</button>\n812\t <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onc
lick=\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>\n813\t <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('ra
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ tton class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>","new_string":" <button class=\
"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('mazewar',this)\">🌀 CorridorX</button>\n <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=
\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>"},"caller":{"type":"direct"}}],"stop_reason":"tool_use","stop_sequence"
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ g":" addChatMsg('Maya',null,'Just scored 4200 in CorridorX 🏆',null,'general');"},"caller":{"type":"direct"}}],"stop_reaso
n":"tool_use","stop_sequence":null,"stop_details":null,"usage":{"input_tokens":1,"cache_creation_input_tokens":205,"cache_r
ead_input_tokens":42646,"output_tokens":176,"server_tool_use":{"web_search_requests":0,"web_fetch_requests":0},"service_tie
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Waiting…

$content =
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80016fa.jsonl",
[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)
# Find Dan's chat message
● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ <button class=\"chat-room-btn active\" onclick=\"switchRoom('general',this)\">🌐 General</button>\n811\t <button class=
\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('skydash',this)\">🏃 Sky Dash</button>\n812\t <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onc
lick=\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>\n813\t <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('ra
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ tton class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>","new_string":" <button class=\
"chat-room-btn\" onclick=\"switchRoom('mazewar',this)\">🌀 CorridorX</button>\n <button class=\"chat-room-btn\" onclick=
\"switchRoom('bigbird',this)\">🐦 Big Bird</button>"},"caller":{"type":"direct"}}],"stop_reason":"tool_use","stop_sequence"
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ g":" addChatMsg('Maya',null,'Just scored 4200 in CorridorX 🏆',null,'general');"},"caller":{"type":"direct"}}],"stop_reaso
n":"tool_use","stop_sequence":null,"stop_details":null,"usage":{"input_tokens":1,"cache_creation_input_tokens":205,"cache_r
ead_input_tokens":42646,"output_tokens":176,"server_tool_use":{"web_search_requests":0,"web_fetch_requests":0},"service_tie
… +2 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ ---
: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system',null,'??
?� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(gameObj) add
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
● 016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Waiting…
Found 10 system messages
✽ Wad---npos(2108122·---10.4k tokens)
addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+'ejoinedsthe room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system',null,'???�
… +18 lines (ctrl+o to expand)
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ First occurrence at: 2108167
l');\n1392: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system
',null,'???� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(ga
… +4 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell(# Read the file as raw bytes and examine the title area
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\gameplayzone\index.html")…)
⎿ Waiting…

● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ ---
: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system',null,'??
?� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(gameObj) add
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Found 10 system messages
--- pos 2108122 ---
addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system',null,'???�
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ First occurrence at: 2108167
l');\n1392: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system
',null,'???� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(ga
… +4 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● PowerShell(# Read the file as raw bytes and examine the title area
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\gameplayzone\index.html")…)
⎿ Found at byte 321
Hex: 47 61 6D 65 50 6C 61 79 5A 6F 6E 65 20 3F 80 93 20 46 72 65 65 20 47 61 6D 65 73 2C 20 52 65
ASCII: GamePlayZone ?.. Free Games, Re

● Let me check the exact byte patterns of the corrupted sequences using PowerShell.

● PowerShell(# Compute UTF-8 encodings for key emoji
$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8…)
⎿ Waiting…

# Compute UTF-8 encodings for key emoji
$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$chars = @{
'bird' = '🐦'
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Found 10 system messages
--- pos 2108122 ---
addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system',null,'???�
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ First occurrence at: 2108167
l');\n1392: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system
',null,'???� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(ga
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● Let me check the exact byte patterns of the corrupted sequences using PowerShell.

● PowerShell(# Compute UTF-8 encodings for key emoji
$enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8…)
⎿ bird (🐦): F0 9F 90 A6
blue_sq (🟦): F0 9F 9F A6
coin (🪙): F0 9F AA 99
… +15 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

# Simulate the corruption for each emoji to find what bytes it became
$enc1255 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1255)
$enc1252 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1252)
$encUTF8 = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

# Corruption function: UTF-8 bytes -> read as CP-1255 -> encode to CP-1252 bytes
function Corrupt($originalStr) {
$utf8bytes = $encUTF8.GetBytes($originalStr)
# Step 1: Read bytes as CP-1255 (Get-Content behavior)
$cp1255str = $enc1255.GetString($utf8bytes)
# Step 2: Write as UTF-8 (Out-File behavior)
$utf8again = $encUTF8.GetBytes($cp1255str)
# Step 3: Read UTF-8, encode as CP-1252 (failed reversal)
$cp1252str = $encUTF8.GetString($utf8again)
$cp1252bytes = $enc1252.GetBytes($cp1252str)
return $cp1252bytes
}

$chars = @{
'bird' = '🐦'
'rocket' = '🚀'
'snake' = '🐍'
'pick' = '⛏️'
'seedling' = '🌱'
'rocket' = '🚀'
'snake' = '🐍'
'pick' = '⛏️'
'seedling' = '🌱'
⎿ First occurrence at: 2108167
l');\n1392: addChatMsg('system',null,'??�� '+user.name+' joined the room!',null,'general');\n1415: addChatMsg('system
',null,'???� '+name+' just joined PlayZone!',null,'general');\n1989: if(ga
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● Let me check the exact byte patterns of the corrupted sequences using PowerShell.

● PowerShell(# Simulate the corruption for each emoji to find what bytes it became
$enc1255 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1255)…)
⎿ Error: Exit code 1
At line:45 char:17

Write-Host "$name: orig=[$origHex] corrupt=[$hex]"
~~~~~~

Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to delimit the
name.

CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive

$enc1255 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1255)
$enc1252 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1252)
$encUTF8 = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

function Corrupt($originalStr) {
$utf8bytes = $encUTF8.GetBytes($originalStr)
$cp1255str = $enc1255.GetString($utf8bytes)
$utf8again = $encUTF8.GetBytes($cp1255str)
$cp1252str = $encUTF8.GetString($utf8again)
$cp1252bytes = $enc1252.GetBytes($cp1252str)
return $cp1252bytes
}

$chars = [ordered]@{
'bird' = '🐦'
'rocket' = '🚀'
'snake' = '🐍'
'pick' = '⛏️'
'seedling' = '🌱'
'spiral' = '🌀'
'blue_sq' = '🟦'
'pick' = '⛏️'
'seedling' = '🌱'
'spiral' = '🌀'
'blue_sq' = '🟦'
● Let me check the exact byte patterns of the corrupted sequences using PowerShell.

● PowerShell(# Simulate the corruption for each emoji to find what bytes it became
$enc1255 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1255)…)
⎿ Error: Exit code 1
At line:45 char:17

Write-Host "$name: orig=[$origHex] corrupt=[$hex]"
~~~~~~

Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to delimit the
name.

CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive

● PowerShell($enc1255 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1255)
$enc1252 = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(1252)…)
⎿ bird: orig=[F0 9F 90 A6] corrupt=[3F 3F 90 A6]
rocket: orig=[F0 9F 9A 80] corrupt=[3F 3F 3F 80]
snake: orig=[F0 9F 90 8D] corrupt=[3F 3F 90 8D]
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ Last DAILY_CHALLENGES at: 2090484
DAILY_CHALLENGES=[\\n1292\\t {id:'d1',icon:'🏃',color:'#6c63ff',game:'skydash',title:'Score 500 in Sky Dash',desc:'Channel
your inner runner',goal:500,reward:50},\\n1293\\t {id:'d2',icon:'🐦',color:'#38bdf8',game:'bigbird',title:'Play 3 rounds
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● PowerShell($content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("C:\Users\shai\.claude\projects\C--gameplayzone\4eb99300-f501-4fc5-8174-b944c80
016fa.jsonl", [System.Text.Encoding]::UT…)
⎿ ,icon:'🏃',color:'#6c63ff',game:'skydash',title:'Score 500 in Sky Dash',desc:'Channel your inner runner',goal:500,reward:50
},","new_string":" {id:'d1',icon:'🌀',color:'#6c63ff',game:'mazewar',title:'Score 500 in CorridorX',desc:'Hunt down 5+ ene
mies in the maze',goal:500,reward:50},"},"caller":{"type":"direct"}}],"stop_reason":"tool_use","stop_sequence":null,"stop_d
etails":null,"usage":{"input_to

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

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Claude Code Version

1.0.22222 i cant since i have no credits and i want to report this

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

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