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Fix diacritics support by setting PYTHONUTF8 environment variable

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Co-authored-by: ethanolivertroy <63926014+ethanolivertroy@users.noreply.github.com>
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copilot-swe-agent[bot] 2025-11-12 23:52:06 +00:00
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@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export default class MarkitdownPlugin extends Plugin {
async execCommand(command: string): Promise<string> {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
exec(command, { env: { ...process.env, PYTHONUTF8: '1' } }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
if (error) {
reject(error);
return;
@ -140,18 +140,21 @@ export default class MarkitdownPlugin extends Plugin {
// According to the error message, markitdown just takes a filename as argument
let command = `markitdown "${filePath}" > "${outputPath}"`;
// Set environment to ensure UTF-8 encoding for Unicode support (including diacritics)
const env = { ...process.env, PYTHONUTF8: '1' };
// Execute as a shell command
exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
exec(command, { env }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
if (error) {
// Try alternative approach with Python module if the first method fails
const moduleCommand = `${this.settings.pythonPath} -c "from markitdown import convert; convert('${filePath}', output_file='${outputPath}')"`;
exec(moduleCommand, (moduleError, moduleStdout, moduleStderr) => {
exec(moduleCommand, { env }, (moduleError, moduleStdout, moduleStderr) => {
if (moduleError) {
// One last attempt with just a basic command
const basicCommand = `${this.settings.pythonPath} -m markitdown "${filePath}" > "${outputPath}"`;
exec(basicCommand, (basicError, basicStdout, basicStderr) => {
exec(basicCommand, { env }, (basicError, basicStdout, basicStderr) => {
if (basicError) {
reject(new Error(`Markitdown failed to convert the file: ${basicError.message}\n${basicStderr}`));
return;