fix: pass locale env to managed tmux sessions#690
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The supervisor runs as a launchd service (com.gascity.supervisor) which does not inherit the user's shell environment. This means LANG and LC_ALL are absent from managed tmux sessions, causing TUI tools like Claude Code to misrender UTF-8 glyphs (e.g. block characters in the statusline appear as diamonds). Add LANG, LC_ALL, and LC_CTYPE to the passthroughEnv whitelist, with a fallback to en_US.UTF-8 when LANG is unset.
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Summary
LANG,LC_ALL,LC_CTYPEtopassthroughEnv()whitelisten_US.UTF-8whenLANGis unset (launchd supervisor)Problem
The supervisor runs as a launchd service (
com.gascity.supervisor) which does not inherit the user's shell environment.LANG/LC_ALLare absent from managed tmux sessions, causing TUI tools like Claude Code to misrender UTF-8 glyphs — e.g. block characters (▓,░) in the statusline appear as diamonds.The chain: launchd → gc supervisor (no LANG) →
passthroughEnv()skips LANG (empty) → tmux-eflags omit it → Claude Code starts without UTF-8 locale → ambiguous-width Unicode characters render incorrectly.Test plan
TestPassthroughEnvLANGFallback— verifies fallback toen_US.UTF-8when LANG is unsetTestPassthroughEnvLANGPassthrough— verifies user's LANG is preserved when setgc stop && gc start, thengc session attach mayor— Claude Code statusline renders▓░correctly