# NousResearch/hermes-agent · UTF-8 encoding fix for browser CLI on Windows

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #87152: \[Bug\]: browser_exec UnicodeDecodeError on Windows — browser_use_cli.py missing encoding="utf-8"

These issues and PRs address a UnicodeDecodeError occurring on Windows when browser_use_cli.py reads CLI stdout without explicitly specifying UTF-8 encoding. The proposed fixes involve pinning or setting the encoding parameter to UTF-8 in the relevant pipe or subprocess calls.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #87152: \[Bug\]: browser_exec UnicodeDecodeError on Windows — browser_use_cli.py missing encoding="utf-8"

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#87162: fix(browser): decode Browser Use CLI stdout as UTF-8**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#87181: browser_exec: pin the browser-use CLI pipes to UTF-8**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#87162`
- **#104106: fix(browser): pin browser-use CLI pipes to UTF-8 on every host locale**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#87162`, `#87152`, `#102500`, `#103973`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`