Plugin upload fails because "The plugin description must start with Latin characters and have at least 40 characters"

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My plugin has a description in plugin.xml that is well over 40 characters and it passes verifyPlugin. I get this error trying to upload it via the web UI every time.

Plugin source code: Add an IDE plugin by joshfriend · Pull Request #18 · joshfriend/spotlight · GitHub

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Your gradle.build.kts overrides the description…

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the same problem
Upload failed: Invalid plugin descriptor 'description'. The plugin description must start with Latin characters and have at least 40 characters.

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I solved the problem by changing the Chinese in the description to English