Windows path-list and encoding fixes in test runner
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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #81965 on 8 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.
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These items address two related Windows-specific bugs in the parallel test runner: drive-letter colons breaking path-list splitting, and UnicodeEncodeError suppressing per-file progress output when stdout is piped.
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#81965 fix(tests): Windows-safe encoding in test suite + runner drive-letter path split
files:
apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts,contributors/emails/[redacted:email],contributors/emails/[redacted:email],scripts/run_tests_parallel.py,tests/conftest.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins_cmd.py,tests/scripts/test_contributor_map.py,tests/stress/test_atypical_scenarios.py,tests/test_atomic_replace_symlinks.py,tests/test_hermes_constants.py,tests/test_run_tests_parallel.py,tests/tools/test_web_tools_truncate.py
2 PRs closed without merging
From the close comments: duplicate 1 · merged via another change 1
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#57149run_tests_parallel.py on Windows: ':' path-list split breaks drive letters; per-file progress lines lost to UnicodeEncodeError on piped stdout
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- 8 Aug 2026