test(cli): document why chardet's short-sample weakness is acceptable

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2026-05-05 14:48:57 +00:00
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@@ -231,8 +231,15 @@ describe("Encoding.hasUtf32Bom", () => {
})
describe("Encoding.read / Encoding.readSync / Encoding.write", () => {
// chardet needs enough characteristic bytes to confidently identify
// Shift_JIS; very short samples collide with the windows-1252 profile.
// chardet is noticeably more conservative than other detectors (jschardet,
// ICU) on tiny samples: a 12-byte Shift_JIS phrase collides with the
// windows-1252 profile and is misclassified. In practice this is fine,
// because the tool pipeline only runs detection on files the agent is about
// to read or patch — real source files and documents carry far more than 12
// bytes of characteristic content, which is plenty for chardet to lock
// onto the right encoding. The short-sample cliff only matters for
// synthetic fixtures like this one, so we pad the sample to the same body
// of Japanese text the rest of the suite already relies on.
const shiftJisSample = "こんにちは、世界!日本語のテストです。"
test("read detects and decodes Shift_JIS asynchronously", async () => {