Flight Log / microsoft/debug-gym #129
Fix 'utf-8' codec error with surrogate pairs in Unicode strings — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/debug-gym on May 26, 2025; merged clean in 38 min, merged by @xingdi-eric-yuan: +47 −7, 4 files, 2 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot fixes a UnicodeEncodeError in microsoft/debug-gym, where the unescape function, which uses codecs unicode_escape decoding, triggers a UTF-8 surrogate error during SWE-Bench experiments. The change adds 47 lines and removes seven across four files in four commits. It merged clean after two reviews with no change requests. The reviewer wrote "looks good to me."
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## Issue Users encountered the following error when running experiments on SWE-Bench: ``` UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 18675-18676: surrogates not allowed ``` This error occurred because the `unescape` function using `codecs.decode(s, "unicode_escape")` cou…
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
- —committedXingdi (Eric) Yuan
- —committedXingdi (Eric) Yuan
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- May 26, 2025mergedxingdi-eric-yuan
- May 26, 2025closedxingdi-eric-yuan
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, microsoft/debug-gym#129, record updated Nov 4, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/microsoft/debug-gym/129/
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