Recap came back in Simplified Chinese for an all-English conversation

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.152.1

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol medium

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

cmux

Codex doctor report

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What issue are you seeing?

A minor issue but kind of strange. I had a 'Conversation recap' output in simplified chinese. My session prior to this was all in english, and I could not find any obvious reason it switched to chinese.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 01a062fb-2492-7280-ae46-ae36711e362e

What is the expected behavior?

I expect the recap to come back in English

Additional information

No response

Start by reproducing the recap behavior in codex-cli 0.152.1 using an all-English conversation and the reported gpt-5.6-sol model. Trace where recap language is selected; done means an all-English conversation produces an English recap consistently.