remix-run · brophdawg11 · Jun 27, 2025 · May 28, 2025 · Jun 25, 2025 · Jun 25, 2025
diff --git a/.changeset/polite-fans-rhyme.md b/.changeset/polite-fans-rhyme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"react-router": patch
+---
+
+Support unencoded UTF-8 routes in prerender config with `ssr` set to `false`
diff --git a/contributors.yml b/contributors.yml
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@
 - rtzll
 - rubeonline
 - ruidi-huang
+- rururux
 - ryanflorence
 - ryanhiebert
 - saengmotmi

diff --git a/integration/vite-prerender-test.ts b/integration/vite-prerender-test.ts
@@ -2370,6 +2370,86 @@ test.describe("Prerendering", () => {
       expect(requests).toEqual(["/page.data"]);
     });
 
+    test("Navigates prerendered multibyte path routes", async ({ page }) => {
+      fixture = await createFixture({
+        prerender: true,
+        files: {
+          "react-router.config.ts": reactRouterConfig({
+            ssr: false, // turn off fog of war since we're serving with a static server
+            prerender: ["/", "/page", "/ページ"],
+          }),
+          "vite.config.ts": files["vite.config.ts"],
+          "app/root.tsx": js`
+            import * as React from "react";
+            import { Link, Outlet, Scripts } from "react-router";
+
+            export function Layout({ children }) {
+              return (
+                <html lang="en">
+                  <head />
+                  <body>
+                    <nav>
+                      <Link to="/page">Page</Link><br/>
+                      <Link to="/ページ">ページ</Link><br/>
+                    </nav>
+                    {children}
+                    <Scripts />
+                  </body>
+                </html>
+              );
+            }
+
+            export default function Root({ loaderData }) {
+              return <Outlet />
+            }
+          `,
+          "app/routes/_index.tsx": js`
+            export default function Index() {
+              return <h1 data-index>Index</h1>
+            }
+          `,
+          "app/routes/page.tsx": js`
+            export function loader() {
+              return "PAGE DATA"
+            }
+            export default function Page({ loaderData }) {
+              return <h1 data-page>{loaderData}</h1>;
+            }
+          `,
+          "app/routes/ページ.tsx": js`
+            export function loader() {
+              return "ページ データ";
+            }
+            export default function Page({ loaderData }) {
+              return <h1 data-multibyte-page>{loaderData}</h1>;
+            }
+          `,
+        },
+      });
+      appFixture = await createAppFixture(fixture);
+
+      let encodedMultibytePath = encodeURIComponent("ページ");
+      let requests = captureRequests(page);
+      let app = new PlaywrightFixture(appFixture, page);
+      await app.goto("/", true);
+      await page.waitForSelector("[data-index]");
+
+      await app.clickLink("/page");
+      await page.waitForSelector("[data-page]");
+      expect(await (await page.$("[data-page]"))?.innerText()).toBe(
+        "PAGE DATA"
+      );
+      expect(requests).toEqual(["/page.data"]);
+      clearRequests(requests);
+
+      await app.clickLink("/ページ");
+      await page.waitForSelector("[data-multibyte-page]");
+      expect(await (await page.$("[data-multibyte-page]"))?.innerText()).toBe(
+        "ページ データ"
+      );
+      expect(requests).toEqual([`/${encodedMultibytePath}.data`]);
+    })
+
     test("Returns a 404 if navigating to a non-prerendered param value", async ({
       page,
     }) => {

diff --git a/packages/react-router/lib/server-runtime/server.ts b/packages/react-router/lib/server-runtime/server.ts
@@ -172,22 +172,25 @@ export const createRequestHandler: CreateRequestHandlerFunction = (
     // When runtime SSR is disabled, make our dev server behave like the deployed
     // pre-rendered site would
     if (!_build.ssr) {
+      // Decode the URL path before checking against the prerender config
+      let decodedPath = decodeURI(normalizedPath);
+
       // When SSR is disabled this, file can only ever run during dev because we
       // delete the server build at the end of the build
       if (_build.prerender.length === 0) {
         // ssr:false and no prerender config indicates "SPA Mode"
         isSpaMode = true;
       } else if (
-        !_build.prerender.includes(normalizedPath) &&
-        !_build.prerender.includes(normalizedPath + "/")
+        !_build.prerender.includes(decodedPath) &&
+        !_build.prerender.includes(decodedPath + "/")
       ) {
         if (url.pathname.endsWith(".data")) {
           // 404 on non-pre-rendered `.data` requests
           errorHandler(
             new ErrorResponseImpl(
               404,
               "Not Found",
-              `Refusing to SSR the path \`${normalizedPath}\` because \`ssr:false\` is set and the path is not included in the \`prerender\` config, so in production the path will be a 404.`
+              `Refusing to SSR the path \`${decodedPath}\` because \`ssr:false\` is set and the path is not included in the \`prerender\` config, so in production the path will be a 404.`
             ),
             {
               context: loadContext,