Fix: open in binary mode so lxml handles XML encoding detection itself, no cp1252 issue danabases changed the title Fix print statement format and update file open modes fix: Windows cp1252 encoding ...

Bug 1 — docx.py line 249: The → character can't be encoded by Windows console (cp1252). Fix: use ASCII -> Bug 2 — base.py line 763: open (xml_file, "r") with no encoding specified defaults to cp1252 ...

It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...