From e4f62cfcbcfda6c3e804966272b341aa29412fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chaochaoweb3 <49186707+chaochaoweb3@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 16:22:50 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: read skill files as UTF-8

---
 scripts/validate-skills | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/validate-skills b/scripts/validate-skills
index 4d8e1fc8..6e4904cc 100755
--- a/scripts/validate-skills
+++ b/scripts/validate-skills
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ errors = []
 names = {}
 
 skill_files.each do |path|
-  text = File.read(path)
+  text = File.read(path, encoding: "UTF-8")
   data, error = load_front_matter(path, text)
 
   if error

From 98012b74448ae3e7d3a79508fbe2f46630af7aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 02:49:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: credit UTF-8 validator fix

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cd06bdbc..fa52fb86 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ summary: Timeline of guardrail helper changes mirrored from Sweetistics and rela
 
 # Changelog
 
+## 2026-07-02 — UTF-8 Skill Validation
+- Made skill validation explicitly read UTF-8 so C locales accept non-ASCII skill front matter. Thanks @chaochaoweb3.
+
 ## 2026-07-02 — Orchestrator Ownership
 - Kept `maintainer-orchestrator` skill maintenance in the root orchestration session and enforced exactly one Codex app thread per project, removing project-to-task thread fan-out including the OpenClaw exception.