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Desktop link-card title charset decoding fix

Cluster 118497. Data as of 2026-10-24 13:18 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #121411 on 25 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Fix event: A fix was merged to main in PR #121411. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs concern mojibake appearing in link-card titles when fetched pages use non-UTF-8 encodings such as Big5, GBK, or Shift-JIS. The work involves decoding fetched link metadata according to the page's declared charset rather than defaulting to UTF-8.

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#121411 fix(desktop): decode fetched link metadata by charset

merged to main

files: apps/desktop/electron/link-title-curl.test.ts, apps/desktop/electron/link-title-curl.ts, apps/desktop/electron/main.ts, apps/desktop/electron/web-text-decoder.test.ts, apps/desktop/electron/web-text-decoder.ts

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

#118508 fix(desktop): decode the curl link-title tier with its declared charset · other → #118497
#118525 fix(desktop): decode fetched link metadata by charset · superseded by another PR → f7a8613

Closed issues · 1

Closed#118497[Desktop] Link-card title is mojibake for non-UTF-8 pages (Big5/GBK/Shift-JIS) — faviconIo.fetchText uses Response.text(), which always decodes as UTF-8

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Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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Merged PRs: #121411
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 25 Sep 2026

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