Multiple languages and alphabet appear in the CLI output

[kloncentaur8]

This bug was reported by @kloncentaur8

Since there are other duplicated issues with the same problem, @silviojr is turning it into a master issue and duplicating the others. Here are some other examples:

Arabic and english: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/13504 Cyrlic/russian: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/13512 In shell commands: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/9534

What happened?

Chinese text randomly started appear in the output mixed with English.

What did you expect to happen?

Just English output.

Client information

• CLI Version: 0.17.1
• Git Commit: 1d51935fc
• Session ID: ec4d5a47-ac95-45cb-80e0-9f6c3581e882
• Operating System: darwin v25.1.0
• Sandbox Environment: no sandbox
• Model Version: auto
• Memory Usage: 258.5 MB
• IDE Client: VS Code

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[gemini-cli[bot]]

Found possible duplicate issues:

• #1594
• #13512

If you believe this is not a duplicate, please remove the status/possible-duplicate label.