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Public story · 2026-08-31 · high
Multi-byte UTF-8 characters split across streaming chunks, silently corrupting Fabric's CJK and accented text output.
Why now: Fabric's v1.4.473 release notes, covered here as of August 31, place the fix right after a separate provider addition in v1.4.472.
Fabric fixed a decoding bug that corrupted multi-byte UTF-8 characters split across streaming chunks. The fix, in Fabric's v1.4.473 release notes, adds persistent streaming state so a character split mid-stream gets reassembled instead of decoded in pieces.
The bug only showed up on non-ASCII output. Anyone running CJK or accented text through Fabric got results that were silently wrong, with no crash to flag the problem.
ASCII characters are a single byte each, so English text never crosses a chunk boundary. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and accented Latin characters take multiple bytes, and a split mid-character decoded as garbage, with no error thrown.
That silence made the bug hard to catch. A crash gets filed as a bug. Corrupted-but-valid-looking text gets blamed on the model instead, and anyone who complained about Fabric's output quality on non-English text before this release was probably debugging the wrong layer.
Fabric released v1.4.472 earlier the same day. It added Synthorai as an OpenAI-compatible provider, unrelated to the decoding fix beyond sharing the release date.
A bug like this survives because broken output on non-English text looks like a model quality problem, not a decoding bug, so nobody files the right issue. The release notes don't say how far back the bug goes or how many versions carried it.
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