Use Case

If we deploy a Lambda function that currently contains multibyte characters, the escaped characters will be output.

I am currently facing the same problem that the official documentation is talking about when using CDK.
esbuild API document says

using escape sequences makes the generated output slightly bigger, and also makes it harder to read.

Example

Input Lambda code

exports.handler = async (event) => { console.log("Japanese:日本語"); }

Current output code

exports.handler = async (event) => {
  console.log("Japanese:\u65E5\u672C\u8A9E");
};

Expected output code

exports.handler = async (event) => {
  console.log("Japanese:日本語");
};

Proposed Solution

Add the charset option to the bundling.

new NodejsFunction(this, 'ExampleLambda', {
  bundling: {
    charset: 'utf-8',
  },
  ...
});

Other

Possible response methods

• Add the charset property to BundlingOptions.
• Add a process to createBundlingCommand to expand the charset property

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

This is a 🚀 Feature Request