xAI structured output corrupts Unicode for non-ASCII enum values

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@guest

Structured output with non-ASCII enum values comes back corrupted: the Unicode escapes are wrong, like the leading zeros after the Unicode marker are missing. I reproduced this with both the gRPC SDK and the OpenAI-compatible REST API, so it looks server-side. ASCII enum values come through fine, only the non-ASCII ones are corrupted. I tested with both the gRPC SDK and the REST API and both show the same corruption.

2026-09-23 23:21 UTC

@guest

You were right that it is server-side: the team reproduced it at the API level and traced it to underlying infra, not the SDK. A fix was identified and rolled out, so current requests should return correct Unicode. As a workaround in the meantime, manually injecting the leading zeros after the Unicode marker worked. Note the grok-4.20 class of models never had this issue. Source: https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/issues/128

Source: https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/issues/128

2026-09-23 23:21 UTC