Gulp v5 corrupt font files

[Graeme Wicksted]

What were you expecting to happen?

Gulp copies the binary files verbatim

What actually happened?

Contents of the files were modified with unicode placeholders.

Please give us a sample of your gulpfile

var gulp = require("gulp");

gulp.task("copy-fonts", () => {
    return gulp.src("Content/fonts/**/*.*")
        .pipe(gulp.dest("bin/Content/fonts"));
});

Terminal output / screenshots

$ npx gulp copy-fonts

Please provide the following information:

• OS & version [e.g. MacOS Catalina 10.15.4]: Windows 10
• node version (run node -v): v20.12.1
• npm version (run npm -v): 10.5.2
• gulp version (run gulp -v): CLI version: 3.0.0
  Local version: 5.0.0

Additional information

Switching back to gulp 4.0.2 fixes the issue (files are binary identical).

npm i gulp@4 --save-dev

Switching back to gulp 5.0.0 reproduces the issue.

npm i gulp@5 --save-dev

The source .woff file started with:

00000000: 77 4F 46 46 00 01 00 00
00000008: 00 01 82 F8
0000000C: 00 12 00 00 00 03 4F 38

With gulp v5, the bin copy of the .woff file starts with:

00000000: 77 4F 46 46 00 01 00 00
00000008: 00 01 EF BF BD EF BF BD
00000010: 00 12 00 00 00 03 4F 38

(there are many more instances of that Unicode escape sequence in the woff file)

Troubleshooting

Tried specifying { encoding: "binary" } in the gulp.src call but that just changes bytes in different ways. (this variation also works as expected in gulp v4 but not in v5)

Below is the output from gulp v5:

00000000: 77 4F 46 46 00 01 00 00
00000008: 00 01 C2 82 C3 B8 00 12
00000010: 00 00 00 03 4F 38 00 06

[Maxim Shuguroff]

Same issue with images and fonts

[Kikel Dmitry]

Had a same issue. Fixed it like this ({encoding: false} as arg in src):

import { src, dest } from 'gulp';

const fonts = () => {
	return src('source-path', { encoding: false }).pipe(dest('destination-path'))
};

[Ryan Lelek]

Thank you @KikelDmitry , confirmed working with your fix

[contra]

Dupe of other open tickets, closing. Docs in the docs folder and release blog post have this but website needs to be updated still.

[Blaine Bublitz]

The website is updated now.