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Fixes: #76286

What?

unstable_cache builds fetchUrl, a label describing the current request, by interpolating decoded search values — .map((key) => `${key}=${searchParams.get(key)}`). This rebuilds that label with URLSearchParams instead, so the values come out percent-encoded and the label is always ASCII.

fetchUrl is not part of the cache key

// For: https://my-app.com/?key=bar&extra=中國人:
window.location.search // '?key=bar&extra=%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%BA%BA'
let sp = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
sp.get("extra") // '中國人'

Why?

fetchUrl is handed to the incremental cache.

if (globalCacheHandler?.FetchCache) {
CurCacheHandler = globalCacheHandler.FetchCache
if (IncrementalCache.debug) {
console.log('IncrementalCache: using global FetchCache cache handler')
}
} else {
if (fs && serverDistDir) {
if (IncrementalCache.debug) {
console.log('IncrementalCache: using filesystem cache handler')
}
CurCacheHandler = FileSystemCache
}
}

When a FetchCache is available, like on Vercel, the handler makes an HTTP request to the data cache and sends fetchUrl as the x-vercel-cache-item-name header, and header values are ByteStrings, so a codepoint above U+00FF makes new Headers() throw before the request is even sent.

let h = new Headers({foo: '中國人'}) //  Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'Headers': String contains non ISO-8859-1 code point.
//     at <anonymous>:1:9
// Node.js prints a different error

We see no errors and the request succeeds, so combined with the v14 history below, the likely explanation is that the throw is caught and returned as null, which looks like a MISS, and set() fails the same way, so nothing is ever written either.

The result is that unstable_cache silently stops caching for any URL carrying a non-Latin-1 query value, including one the app never reads.

Under next start, FileSystemCache there's no such path for fetchUrl, all good.

How?

Each value is appended to a URLSearchParams and serialized with toString(), which percent-encodes.

Using getAll() also keeps repeated keys distinct — ?a=1&a=2 previously produced a=1&a=1.

Verified on a Vercel deployment: https://issue-76286-patched-next.vercel.app/?key=bar&extra=%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%BA%BA

Control without the patch: https://throwaway-phi.vercel.app/?key=bar&extra=%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%BA%BA

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