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Different utf8 escape sequences for Ţ and Ţ #66862
Description
Version
v26.12.0
Platform
Linux ___ 6.18.56-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:13:23 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Subsystem
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What steps will reproduce the bug?
From the Node.js repl, run the following example.
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // T%CC%A7
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // %C5%A2How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
100% of the time.
What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // T%CC%A7
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // T%CC%A7or
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // %C5%A2
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // %C5%A2What do you see instead?
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // T%CC%A7
encodeURIComponent("Ţ") // %C5%A2Additional information
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Activity
bakkot commentedon Oct 19, 2026
This is correct behavior.
encodeURIComponentworks off the raw UTF-8 encoding of the string. If you want to normalize, that's what String.prototype.normalize is for:encodeURIComponent("Ţ".normalize()) === encodeURIComponent("Ţ".normalize()) // true.