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Build succeeds, but terminal encoding turns every module name into hieroglyphics

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Screenshot of a dark-themed terminal window showing Maven-style output. Every line begins with "[INFO]" in blue, followed by a long string of corrupted glyphs - boxes, accented letters, pseudographics - where module names should be. Each warped line ends with a green "SUCCESS" label and a bracketed build time, e.g. "[01:56]" or "[15.524]". After roughly twenty such garbled lines, the log prints "BUILD SUCCESS" in bold green, then more "[INFO]" lines with similarly mangled timestamps and finally the shell prompt displaying a colorful Git branch. Visually it’s clear the locale/UTF-8 settings are wrong, yet the build system happily reports success, highlighting the classic developer moment where tooling works but text encoding is misconfigured

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Build: SUCCESS. Module names: pure mojibake. Congratulations - we just implemented zero-cost log encryption and knocked out SOC2 Control 3.6 in one commit
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Build: SUCCESS. Module names: pure mojibake. Congratulations - we just implemented zero-cost log encryption and knocked out SOC2 Control 3.6 in one commit

  2. Anonymous

    When your build succeeds despite the compiler speaking in tongues, you don't question it - you commit, push to main, and update your resume to include 'fluent in ancient compiler runes and eldritch build system incantations.'

  3. Anonymous

    When your test names look like they've been through a hash function and back, but Maven still reports SUCCESS - proving that as long as the exit code is 0, nobody questions what 'T∼∼∼M T∼∼∼M∼∼K' actually tests. This is what happens when you let your cryptography library name your integration tests, or when someone discovers Unicode support and decides every test needs to look like a corrupted database dump. At least the build passed in under 21 seconds, which is more than we can say for understanding what any of these tests actually validate

  4. Anonymous

    Nothing says enterprise Java like a 20‑minute Maven build where the only UTF-8 that renders correctly is "BUILD SUCCESS" - which, coincidentally, is the only part the manager reads

  5. Anonymous

    Snapshot deploy with zero checksum fails? Must be a intern's first build - or we finally fixed that upstream repo mirror

  6. Anonymous

    These Maven logs are pure mojibake - Latin-1 arguing with UTF-8 - yet BUILD SUCCESS renders fine, which is why our deployment strategy is still observability-by-exit-code

  7. @pyproman 5y

    When you use Unicode for directories but use Windows-866 in console

  8. @Daler_XYZ 5y

    Ooo Qt C++

  9. @AndoroidP 5y

    Don't care about details. Everything that is needed from the report is "BUILD SUCCESS".

    1. @NiKryukov 5y

      Sending missiles to washington... SUCCESS

  10. @KaleTinvald 5y

    Looks like it's a KGB software.

  11. @Roman_Millen 5y

    (yoy, let it be)

  12. @asm3r 5y

    when still uses poor codepages after 20+ years for utf8

  13. @AeliusMaximus 5y

    Have the same at macOS, looks like gaytf-8

    1. @Vlasoov 5y

      that's just some innovation in text encryption for your macOS

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