2 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/js_ast.zig b/src/js_ast.zig
index d25c494fa..62089b3b2 100644
--- a/src/js_ast.zig
+++ b/src/js_ast.zig
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ const JSONParser = bun.JSON;
 const is_bindgen = std.meta.globalOption("bindgen", bool) orelse false;
 const ComptimeStringMap = bun.ComptimeStringMap;
 const JSPrinter = @import("./js_printer.zig");
+const js_lexer = @import("./js_lexer.zig");
 const ThreadlocalArena = @import("./mimalloc_arena.zig").Arena;
 
 /// This is the index to the automatically-generated part containing code that
@@ -2359,7 +2360,6 @@ pub const E = struct {
         }
 
         pub fn toJS(s: *String, allocator: std.mem.Allocator, globalObject: *JSC.JSGlobalObject) JSC.JSValue {
-            s.resolveRopeIfNeeded(allocator);
             if (!s.isPresent()) {
                 var emp = bun.String.empty;
                 return emp.toJS(globalObject);
@@ -2372,8 +2372,15 @@ pub const E = struct {
             }
 
             {
-                var out = bun.String.create(s.slice(allocator));
+                s.resolveRopeIfNeeded(allocator);
+
+                const decoded = js_lexer.decodeUTF8(s.slice(allocator), allocator) catch unreachable;
+                defer allocator.free(decoded);
+
+                var out = bun.String.createUninitializedUTF16(decoded.len);
                 defer out.deref();
+                @memcpy(@constCast(out.utf16()), decoded);
+
                 return out.toJS(globalObject);
             }
         }
@@ -9951,12 +9958,8 @@ pub const Macro = struct {
                         },
                         .String => {
                             var bun_str = value.toBunString(this.global);
-                            if (bun_str.is8Bit()) {
-                                if (strings.isAllASCII(bun_str.latin1())) {
-                                    return Expr.init(E.String, E.String.init(this.allocator.dupe(u8, bun_str.latin1()) catch unreachable), this.caller.loc);
-                                }
-                            }
 
+                            // encode into utf16 so the printer escapes the string correctly
                             var utf16_bytes = this.allocator.alloc(u16, bun_str.length()) catch unreachable;
                             var out_slice = utf16_bytes[0 .. (bun_str.encodeInto(std.mem.sliceAsBytes(utf16_bytes), .utf16le) catch 0) / 2];
                             return Expr.init(E.String, E.String.init(out_slice), this.caller.loc);
diff --git a/src/js_lexer.zig b/src/js_lexer.zig
index a0ad75c7b..e54e738e0 100644
--- a/src/js_lexer.zig
+++ b/src/js_lexer.zig
@@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ pub const JSONOptions = struct {
     was_originally_macro: bool = false,
 };
 
+pub fn decodeUTF8(bytes: string, allocator: std.mem.Allocator) ![]const u16 {
+    var log = logger.Log.init(allocator);
+    defer log.deinit();
+    var source = logger.Source.initEmptyFile("");
+    var lexer = try NewLexer(.{}).init(&log, source, allocator);
+    defer lexer.deinit();
+
+    var buf = std.ArrayList(u16).init(allocator);
+    try lexer.decodeEscapeSequences(0, bytes, @TypeOf(buf), &buf);
+
+    return buf.items;
+}
+
 pub fn NewLexer(
     comptime json_options: JSONOptions,
 ) type {