diff --git a/src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp b/src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp
index 7c5ba80bb6a3..02bdc6e24900 100644
--- a/src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp
+++ b/src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp
@@ -301,7 +301,10 @@ OnLoadResult handleOnLoadResultNotPromise(Zig::GlobalObject* globalObject, JSC::
                 result.value.sourceText.value = contentsValue;
             }
         } else if (JSC::JSArrayBufferView* view = dynamicDowncast<JSC::JSArrayBufferView>(contentsValue)) {
-            result.value.sourceText.string = ZigString { reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(view->vector()), view->byteLength() };
+            // Raw bytes from a typed array are opaque to us: tag as UTF-8 so the
+            // Rust side's ZigString::to_slice() does not Latin-1 -> UTF-8 transcode
+            // bytes >= 0x80 (which would corrupt UTF-8 source and binary payloads).
+            result.value.sourceText.string = ZigString { Zig::taggedUTF8Ptr(reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(view->vector())), view->byteLength() };
             result.value.sourceText.value = contentsValue;
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/jsc/bindings/helpers.h b/src/jsc/bindings/helpers.h
index cb9bc987755c..301bc3f5116c 100644
--- a/src/jsc/bindings/helpers.h
+++ b/src/jsc/bindings/helpers.h
@@ -268,6 +268,11 @@ static const unsigned char* taggedUTF16Ptr(const char16_t* ptr)
     return reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(ptr) | (static_cast<uint64_t>(1) << 63));
 }
 
+static const unsigned char* taggedUTF8Ptr(const unsigned char* ptr)
+{
+    return reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(ptr) | (static_cast<uint64_t>(1) << 61));
+}
+
 static ZigString toZigString(WTF::String* str)
 {
     return str->isEmpty()
diff --git a/test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts b/test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts
index 2bedc9618eb9..6ff5edb14a20 100644
--- a/test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts
@@ -196,6 +196,39 @@ plugin({
   },
 });
 
+plugin({
+  name: "typed array contents",
+  setup(builder) {
+    // UTF-8 source with a non-ASCII literal. The UTF-8 bytes for "é" are
+    // [0xC3, 0xA9]; if those bytes were (wrongly) Latin-1 decoded and then
+    // re-encoded as UTF-8 the parser would see "é" instead.
+    const jsWithUtf8 = Buffer.from('export default "é";\n', "utf8");
+
+    builder.module("buffer-module-sync", () => ({
+      contents: jsWithUtf8,
+      loader: "js",
+    }));
+
+    builder.module("buffer-module-async", async () => {
+      await 1;
+      return { contents: new Uint8Array(jsWithUtf8), loader: "js" };
+    });
+
+    builder.onResolve({ filter: /.*/, namespace: "buffer-contents" }, ({ path }) => ({
+      path,
+      namespace: "buffer-contents",
+    }));
+    builder.onLoad({ filter: /^sync$/, namespace: "buffer-contents" }, () => ({
+      contents: jsWithUtf8,
+      loader: "js",
+    }));
+    builder.onLoad({ filter: /^async$/, namespace: "buffer-contents" }, async () => {
+      await 1;
+      return { contents: jsWithUtf8, loader: "js" };
+    });
+  },
+});
+
 // This is to test that it works when imported from a separate file
 import { bunEnv, bunExe, tempDir } from "harness";
 import { render as svelteRender } from "svelte/server";
@@ -303,6 +336,19 @@ describe("module", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("typed array contents", () => {
+  it.each([
+    ["build.module sync", "buffer-module-sync"],
+    ["build.module async", "buffer-module-async"],
+    ["onLoad sync", "buffer-contents:sync"],
+    ["onLoad async", "buffer-contents:async"],
+  ])("passes raw bytes through for %s", async (_, specifier) => {
+    const { default: value } = await import(specifier);
+    expect(value).toBe("é");
+    expect([...Buffer.from(value, "utf8")]).toEqual([0xc3, 0xa9]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("dynamic import", () => {
   it("SSRs `<h1>Hello world!</h1>` with Svelte", async () => {
     const { default: App }: any = await import("./hello.svelte");