From e98604fa02e101ab8b6c38503d53c72709879a54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tiresiasfromthebai <klein.rudy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:24:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Decode console output as UTF-8 instead of Latin-1

---
 src/SeerConsoleWidget.cpp | 6 +++++-
 src/SeerConsoleWidget.h   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/SeerConsoleWidget.cpp b/src/SeerConsoleWidget.cpp
index dadaca6..eca2829 100644
--- a/src/SeerConsoleWidget.cpp
+++ b/src/SeerConsoleWidget.cpp
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ void SeerConsoleWidget::handleText (const char* buffer, int count) {
     }
 
     // Write text to Ansi widget.
-    QString str = QString::fromLatin1(buffer, count);
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(6, 0, 0)
+    QString str = _utf8Decoder.decode(QByteArrayView(buffer, count));
+#else
+    QString str = QString::fromUtf8(buffer, count);
+#endif
 
     textEdit->insertAnsiText(str);
     textEdit->ensureCursorVisible();
diff --git a/src/SeerConsoleWidget.h b/src/SeerConsoleWidget.h
index 8a156d4..ee02b43 100644
--- a/src/SeerConsoleWidget.h
+++ b/src/SeerConsoleWidget.h
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 #include <QtGui/QShowEvent>
 #include <QtCore/QString>
 #include <QtCore/QSocketNotifier>
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(6, 0, 0)
+#include <QtCore/QStringConverter>
+#endif
 #include "ui_SeerConsoleWidget.h"
 
 class SeerConsoleWidget : public QWidget, protected Ui::SeerConsoleWidgetForm {
@@ -73,5 +76,8 @@ class SeerConsoleWidget : public QWidget, protected Ui::SeerConsoleWidgetForm {
         QSocketNotifier*    _ttyListener;
         bool                _enableStdout;
         bool                _enableWrap;
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(6, 0, 0)
+        QStringDecoder      _utf8Decoder{QStringConverter::Utf8}; // Keeps state across reads so multi-byte sequences split by the 1024-byte buffer decode correctly.
+#endif
 };