When previewing Chinese markdown, there is garbled text.

[c4bbage]

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Describe the bug

When previewing Chinese markdown, there is garbled text.

To reproduce

1. client markdown path in term
2. preview markdown

Expected behavior

No response

Screenshots, videos, and logs

Operating system (OS)

macOS

Operating system and version

15.5.0

Shell Version

No response

Current Warp version

v0.2025.05.28.08.11.stable_02

Regression

No, this bug or issue has existed throughout my experience using Warp

Recent working Warp date

No response

Additional context

No response

Does this block you from using Warp daily?

No

Is this an issue only in Warp?

Yes, I confirmed that this only happens in Warp, not other terminals.

Warp Internal (ignore): linear-label:b9d78064-c89e-4973-b153-5178a31ee54e

None

[dannyneira]

Thanks for letting us know. Many users have resolved display and encoding issues by setting the locale to Chinese UTF-8 in their shell configuration files (such as .zshrc or .bashrc). Add the following lines:

export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8
export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8

Let us know if that helps.

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