# NousResearch/hermes-agent · UTF-8 encoding issues in Windows migration

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address UnicodeDecodeError crashes and encoding compatibility problems encountered during OpenClaw migration on Windows systems with non-UTF-8 locales. Both a bug report and related fixes are represented.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #8901: OpenClaw migration crashes with UnicodeDecodeError on Windows (non-UTF-8 locale)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#13593: fix(encoding): add UTF-8 encoding for Windows compatibility (#7537, #8901, #7058)**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#13986`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#9145: fix(migration): handle non-UTF-8 files in OpenClaw migration**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#8898`, `#71078`

## Fix status

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