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name: text-encoding-3373a8a3efa9
description: Safely inspect and edit Chinese text resources, translation tables, and UI copy without introducing encoding corruption. Use when touching UiPreferences.kt, localized strings, SKILL.md text, README translations, or when terminal output looks garbled.
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# Text Encoding

Use this skill whenever work involves Chinese copy or when terminal output suggests possible mojibake.

## Rules

- Treat terminal display and file content as different things.
- Verify suspicious text by reading the file as UTF-8 before concluding the file is broken.
- Prefer editing text files with `apply_patch`.
- Do not use shell rewrite commands for text files unless the change is narrowly scoped and encoding-safe.
- Do not add fallback logic to hide encoding problems. Fix the source text instead.

## Verification Workflow

1. If console output looks garbled, read the file again with explicit UTF-8.
2. Compare the actual file content, not the terminal rendering.
3. If the file is truly corrupted, restore from a known-good git revision instead of hand-fixing large mojibake blocks.
4. After edits, re-read the changed file as UTF-8 and spot-check the exact strings that were touched.

## Preferred Recovery

- For translation tables or large Chinese copy blocks, prefer restoring the whole file from git history.
- Only do manual line edits when the source file is already clean and the edit scope is small.

## Translation Table Policy

- Route reusable UI copy through the translation table.
- Do not mix direct inline bilingual strings with table-driven strings unless there is a deliberate exception.
- When adding a new UI label, ensure the English key exists in the translation table in the same change.

## Red Flags

- Strings like `闁`, `閸`, `濞`, `鍙`, `鈧`
- Large sections where punctuation or Chinese quotes become malformed
- A file that looks wrong in PowerShell but correct when read as UTF-8

## Done Criteria

- Changed text reads correctly from the file itself in UTF-8.
- No new inline copy bypasses the translation table without reason.
- No encoding workaround code was added.


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Source attribution: ModalityDance
Original project: https://github.com/ModalityDance/PalmClaw
License: MIT
License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit
Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Mega AI Hub.

## Upstream license notice

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Gabriel Moreira

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.



# Mega AI Hub resource metadata

Creator / publisher: ModalityDance
Original project: https://github.com/ModalityDance/PalmClaw
Attribution basis: Upstream repository explicitly recorded in package mirror path

Fields of work: Design, Development & Engineering, Product Management
Roles: Frontend Developer, Product Manager, UX Designer
Specialties: Specialty not specified
Tools: Tool not specified
Country applicability: Country not specified
Classification basis: Source catalog labels
Instruction SHA-256: 6a5e04b1edd8fc42d91f5de45069c27efd964cf469400eada42e0ccd8e44e813