Strange Message after pressing Open Log

KrushZilla

I was updating some asset when I got the regular "Image Resized" message - I've never tired opening the logs before but this time since I have a low of updates I wanted to see if there were any details and I got a strange message written in Mandarin.
This is on the version 4.2.42

The message looks AI generated - apparent from the repeating sentences. I'm not sure what's supposed to be here exactly because it's the first time I opened this log but I'm sure it's not supposed to be this 😆

Spinebot

It seems like you're encountering an issue with the log file displaying unexpected content in Mandarin, which appears to be AI-generated or repetitive. This could be due to a glitch or corruption in the log file. To resolve this, you might want to try restarting Spine and checking if the issue persists. If the problem continues, you could consider deleting the existing log file to allow Spine to generate a new one. The log file can typically be found by following the instructions on the Spine troubleshooting page.

KrushZilla

I have just tried restarting my Spine and the issue persists but I get a slightly different message.

Mario

Please attach the plain file here. The fancy new Notepad has Copilot, which is likely messing with the display of the file somehow.

KrushZilla

I unfortunately did not save the file, but after reopening Spine the next day, I find I cannot repeat this error. It would only make sense Copilot is the cause but I've got no idea why it would have done so - new experimental features I guess 🤷.
Thanks for replying tho Mario !

KrushZilla

Hi I'd like to update this bug report with the same error now when trying to Open Log from an Export Warning.

Text as written is (I've also attached the file itself):
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spine.log

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Misaki

KrushZilla Hmm, I tried simply correcting the encoding to fix the garbled characters, but it didn't work. Would it be possible to provide the Spine project that reproduces the problem via email?: contact@esotericsoftware.com
Please include the URL of this forum thread in the email so we know the context. Then we can take a look at what's wrong.

Misaki

KrushZilla Thank you for providing the Spine project files! I exported them in JSON format and checked them, but I could not reproduce the character encoding issue. Therefore, I believe there is a problem with your computer settings.

Here is the log I obtained for your reference:

Spine Launcher 4.3.01 (macOS Apple Silicon)
Esoteric Software LLC (C) 2013-2025 | http://esotericsoftware.com
Mac OS X aarch64 15.3.1
Apple, Apple M1, 2.1 Metal - 89.3
Starting: Spine 4.2.43 Professional
Spine 4.2.43 Professional
Licensed to: ****** ****** <***********************>
Started.
Update available: 4.3.36-beta
OpenAL 1.1, Default audio device
Image for attachment [region: ************* skeleton: *************, slot: *************] not found: *************

It may be a good idea to try opening the spine.log file in a different way to see if the correct log is displayed.

Davide

KrushZilla

I thought a little more about your issue and realized that yours is just a common encoding issue that is known as mojibake.

I've just copied the text that you pasted in the your message above (#6):

KrushZilla Text as written is (I've also attached the file itself):
灓湩⁥慌湵档牥㐠㈮〮സ䔊潳整楲⁣潓瑦慷敲䰠䍌⠠⥃㈠㄰ⴳ〲㐲簠栠瑴㩰⼯獥瑯牥捩潳瑦慷敲挮浯਍楗摮睯.....

into vscode with UTF-16 LE encoding.

Then, changed the encoding to UTF-8 and got this result.

I've hidden the text as you did in your image:

but I can easily see the result is the same.

In Spine, when you click the Open log button it just trigget the OS to open the txt file, nothing special. So, the issue is Notepad sometimes interpreting the text content with the wrong encoding.
Which language are you using in your OS?

I've also noticed you have an old launcher (4.2.08). It highly recommended to upgrade it. You can do that downloading the latest launcher from your license page.

KrushZilla

Misaki Hi, since encountering this error the first time almost 3 weeks ago. The issue is inconsistent, after a computer restart the issue does goes away. It's not the biggest bother I just thought I'd report it since it was very strange. It could be my computer specific thing, it's definitely an AI generated message possibly written by Copilot but I'm not sure why it would generate itself when trying to create a Spine error log.
Nonetheless, thanks for the help! 😄

Misaki

KrushZilla It's always helpful when you report issues you've noticed! Other users may have the same problem in the future, and this thread may be helpful to someone else. Thank you for reporting it!

KrushZilla

Davide I have just downloaded the latest launcher so hopefully that fixes it. I'm not really sure how to check the language I'm using in my OS, but I'll give it a shot looking to solve this encoding issue.
Thanks Davide for the sprinkle of knowledge, never woulda known about encoding or mojibake before 🙂

Davide

KrushZilla

The real mystery is why your log file has the two unknown characters at the beginning:

Those characters are known to be Byte-order marks (BOM) and in this case are FF FE (in hex) suggesting the text editor use the UTF-16 (LE) encoding (read more about it here).
We currently don't write any BOM, so that's the real mystery. I'm wondering if with the latest notepad version, it sometimes adds BOM by itself.
Did you do anything special with your log file?