Set TextDecoder.ignoreBOM to true in VSBuffer#272389
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This PR fixes a bug where the Byte Order Mark (BOM) character was being incorrectly stripped during message deserialization in VSBuffer.toString(). The fix ensures the BOM character is preserved by explicitly setting ignoreBOM: true when creating the TextDecoder instance.
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TextDecoderinstantiation to preserve BOM characters during UTF-8 decoding
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Great finding! Our original intent with One change I push is to leave the encoding not spelled out explicitly and rely on the default: bef678a |
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Fix for #251527
Issue can be replicated with the steps shown in the issue.
DiskFileSystemProvider.readdir() will create a promise which will contain the list of files in our folder, this message is serialized correctly with the BOM character preserved. The issue occurs when ChannelClient.onBuffer() tries to deserialize the message. In VSBuffer.toString() a default instance of TextDecoder is used which has ignoreBOM set to false meaning the BOM character will be stripped.