# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop link-card title charset decoding fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

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.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121411. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121411 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-121411`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #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

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121411: fix(desktop): decode fetched link metadata by charset**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - 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`
- **#118508: fix(desktop): decode the curl link-title tier with its declared charset**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#118497`
- **#118525: fix(desktop): decode fetched link metadata by charset**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `f7a861379f5ea06fdbf1e561c666958fc606602b`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121411 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-25`.