diff --git a/.changeset/lovely-terms-tell.md b/.changeset/lovely-terms-tell.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5d697a5288
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/lovely-terms-tell.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@shopify/theme': patch
+---
+
+Fix hot-reloading for the {% javascript %} tag when serving compiled assets scripts with multibyte characters
diff --git a/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/local-assets.ts b/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/local-assets.ts
index 2c3f676fdc..d8cfc20107 100644
--- a/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/local-assets.ts
+++ b/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/local-assets.ts
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ function handleStylesCss(ctx: DevServerContext, event: H3Event) {
 
   return serveStatic(event, {
     getContents: () => stylesheet,
-    getMeta: () => ({type: 'text/css', size: stylesheet.length, mtime: new Date()}),
+    getMeta: () => ({type: 'text/css', size: Buffer.byteLength(stylesheet), mtime: new Date()}),
   })
 }
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ function handleBlockScriptsJs(ctx: DevServerContext, event: H3Event, kind: 'bloc
 
   return serveStatic(event, {
     getContents: () => javascript,
-    getMeta: () => ({type: 'text/javascript', size: javascript.length, mtime: new Date()}),
+    getMeta: () => ({type: 'text/javascript', size: Buffer.byteLength(javascript), mtime: new Date()}),
   })
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/theme-environment.test.ts b/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/theme-environment.test.ts
index 02508a5ee6..a623668f62 100644
--- a/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/theme-environment.test.ts
+++ b/packages/theme/src/cli/utilities/theme-environment/theme-environment.test.ts
@@ -638,6 +638,32 @@ describe('setupDevServer', () => {
       `)
     })
 
+    test('serves compiled_assets scripts with correct content-length when content contains multi-byte characters', async () => {
+      const snippetFile = {
+        key: 'snippets/multibyte-snippet.liquid',
+        checksum: 'multibyte1',
+        value: `
+          <div class="snippet">
+            {% javascript %}
+              // ...not full cart — derive count from response
+              console.log("Hey, hey, heeeey!")
+            {% endjavascript %}
+          </div>`,
+      }
+
+      localThemeFileSystem.files.set(snippetFile.key, snippetFile)
+
+      const {res, body} = await dispatchEvent('/cdn/somepath/compiled_assets/snippet-scripts.js')
+
+      const bodyString = body.toString()
+      const bodyByteLength = Buffer.byteLength(bodyString)
+
+      // The dash (—) is 3 bytes in UTF-8 but only 1 character.
+      // content-length must reflect the byte length, not the character count.
+      expect(bodyByteLength).toBeGreaterThan(bodyString.length)
+      expect(res.getHeader('content-length')).toBe(bodyByteLength)
+    })
+
     test('forwards unknown compiled_assets requests to SFR', async () => {
       const fetchStub = vi.fn(async () => new Response())
       vi.stubGlobal('fetch', fetchStub)