From a097b1e300531b5747df1a5d5122740cc81d51a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ZacharyZcR <zacharyzcr1984@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 14:22:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add encoding fallback for legacy SSH servers

- Detect UTF-8 decode failures (replacement characters)
- Auto-fallback to latin1 for non-UTF-8 locales
- Fixes garbled characters on servers without UTF-8 support

Fixes #282
---
 src/backend/ssh/terminal.ts | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/ssh/terminal.ts b/src/backend/ssh/terminal.ts
index 405afabb..0f0b7a0b 100644
--- a/src/backend/ssh/terminal.ts
+++ b/src/backend/ssh/terminal.ts
@@ -427,7 +427,18 @@ wss.on("connection", async (ws: WebSocket, req) => {
           sshStream = stream;
 
           stream.on("data", (data: Buffer) => {
-            ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "data", data: data.toString() }));
+            let decoded = data.toString("utf-8");
+
+            // Defensive fallback: if UTF-8 decode produces replacement characters
+            // and buffer contains high bytes, try latin1 (for legacy servers without UTF-8 locale)
+            if (
+              decoded.includes("\uFFFD") &&
+              data.some((byte) => byte >= 0x80 && byte <= 0xff)
+            ) {
+              decoded = data.toString("latin1");
+            }
+
+            ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "data", data: decoded }));
           });
 
           stream.on("close", () => {