stream: fix UTF-8 character corruption in fast-utf8-stream

[mcollina]

Summary

Fix releaseWritingBuf() to correctly handle partial writes that split multi-byte UTF-8 characters.

The previous implementation incorrectly converted byte counts to character counts by using:

n = Buffer.from(writingBuf).subarray(0, n).toString().length;

When n bytes cuts through a multi-byte character, the incomplete UTF-8 sequence becomes U+FFFD (replacement character) via .toString(), which has a different .length than the original character. This caused:

• 3-byte characters (CJK) to be silently dropped
• 4-byte characters (emoji) to leave lone surrogates in the buffer

The fix backs up from the byte position to find a valid UTF-8 character boundary by checking for continuation bytes (pattern 10xxxxxx), then decodes the properly-aligned bytes to get the correct character count.

Also fixes a typo where this._asyncDrainScheduled was used instead of the private field this.#asyncDrainScheduled.

Fixes: #61744

[nodejs-github-bot]

Review requested:

• @nodejs/streams

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 89.74%. Comparing base (f77a709) to head (4f5cf65).
⚠️ Report is 208 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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[mcollina]

Manual CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/71336/

(no idea why request-ci did not work here)

[mcollina]

@nodejs/build can someone help to see why CI is not starting?

[nodejs-github-bot]

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----------------------------------- PR info ------------------------------------
Title      stream: fix UTF-8 character corruption in fast-utf8-stream (#61745)
Author     Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com> (@mcollina)
Branch     mcollina:fix-utf8-stream-partial-write -> nodejs:main
Labels     stream, needs-ci, commit-queue-squash
Commits    1
 - stream: fix UTF-8 character corruption in fast-utf8-stream
Committers 1
 - Matteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/61744
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it>
------------------------------ Generated metadata ------------------------------
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/61744
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Paolo Insogna <paolo@cowtech.it>
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   ℹ  This PR was created on Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:39:59 GMT
   ✔  Approvals: 4
   ✔  - Yagiz Nizipli (@anonrig) (TSC): https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745#pullrequestreview-3770760306
   ✔  - James M Snell (@jasnell) (TSC): https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745#pullrequestreview-3774539778
   ✔  - Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig): https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745#pullrequestreview-3778727542
   ✔  - Paolo Insogna (@ShogunPanda) (TSC): https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61745#pullrequestreview-3859183492
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[aduh95]

fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/pull/61745/head 🤔

[mcollina]

Should I open a fresh PR?

[anonrig]

Rebasing and force pushing might fix the issue