diff --git a/docs/cloudflare.md b/docs/cloudflare.md
index 196338622..859ed0894 100644
--- a/docs/cloudflare.md
+++ b/docs/cloudflare.md
@@ -129,8 +129,12 @@ npm run deploy:cloudflare
 ```
 
 `npm run deploy:cloudflare` generates the catalog, builds the Web Console, copies catalog assets,
-and runs `wrangler deploy --config wrangler.local.jsonc`. The copied `wrangler.local.jsonc` already
-maps the built Web Console assets to the `ASSETS` binding used by the Worker.
+and runs `wrangler deploy --config wrangler.local.jsonc --minify`. The copied
+`wrangler.local.jsonc` already maps the built Web Console assets to the `ASSETS` binding used by
+the Worker. `--minify` matters on Workers beyond the upload size limit: a heap snapshot of the
+running isolate (taken through the `wrangler dev` inspector) shows the script source retained as one
+string for as long as the isolate lives, so the 13.8 MiB minified script costs about half the
+isolate memory of the 28.7 MiB unminified one, out of the 128 MB each Worker isolate gets.
 
 Use the Worker URL printed by Wrangler to check the deployed runtime, then open the same URL in a
 browser and enter the admin token to access the Web Console:
diff --git a/src/providers/pi_hole/runtime.ts b/src/providers/pi_hole/runtime.ts
index 4fc8eb404..acefaac49 100644
--- a/src/providers/pi_hole/runtime.ts
+++ b/src/providers/pi_hole/runtime.ts
@@ -316,11 +316,15 @@ function readBlockingStatus(payload: Record<string, unknown>): Record<string, un
   };
 }
 
+// The Pi-hole CLI status marks stay written as `\u` escapes: a bundler re-encodes
+// non-ASCII inside a string literal but cannot rewrite a regex literal, and one
+// character above U+00FF forces V8 to hold the whole minified Workers script as a
+// two-byte UTF-16 string, doubling what the script costs in the isolate heap.
 function readGravityStatus(text: string): string | null {
-  if (/\[✗\]|\berror\b|\bfatal\b|\bfailed\b/i.test(text)) {
+  if (/\[\u2717\]|\berror\b|\bfatal\b|\bfailed\b/i.test(text)) {
     return "failed";
   }
-  if (/\[✓\]\s*done|\bdone\.?\s*$/im.test(text.trimEnd())) {
+  if (/\[\u2713\]\s*done|\bdone\.?\s*$/im.test(text.trimEnd())) {
     return "success";
   }
   return null;
diff --git a/src/providers/provider-source-guards.regex-charset.test.ts b/src/providers/provider-source-guards.regex-charset.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c940281e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/providers/provider-source-guards.regex-charset.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join, relative } from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+const sourceDir = fileURLToPath(new URL("..", import.meta.url));
+const repoDir = fileURLToPath(new URL("../..", import.meta.url));
+
+const skippedFileSuffixes = [".test.ts", ".generated.ts", ".d.ts"];
+const skippedFileNames = new Set(["test-helpers.ts"]);
+const identifierCharacter = /[A-Za-z0-9_$]/;
+// A slash opens a regex literal only where a value may begin. Accepting one at a
+// line start or after one of these characters keeps ordinary division out; the
+// cost is a regex in a position no source here uses, which is a better trade for
+// a guard than an expression parser.
+const regexPrefixCharacters = new Set(["(", ",", "=", ":", "[", "!", "&", "|", "?", "{", "}", ";"]);
+const regexPrefixKeyword = "return";
+// The tree holds well over a thousand modules and a few hundred regex literals.
+// Floors well under both fail loudly if the walk or the scanner stops matching
+// anything and the guard quietly starts protecting nothing.
+const minimumScannedFiles = 500;
+const minimumScannedLiterals = 100;
+
+type ScanMode = "code" | "template";
+
+interface RegexLiteral {
+  index: number;
+  text: string;
+}
+
+function isSkippedFile(name: string): boolean {
+  return skippedFileNames.has(name) || skippedFileSuffixes.some((suffix) => name.endsWith(suffix));
+}
+
+function listSourceFiles(dir: string): string[] {
+  const files: string[] = [];
+  for (const entry of readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+    const path = join(dir, entry.name);
+    if (entry.isDirectory()) {
+      files.push(...listSourceFiles(path));
+    } else if (entry.name.endsWith(".ts") && !isSkippedFile(entry.name)) {
+      files.push(path);
+    }
+  }
+  return files;
+}
+
+/** Skip the quoted string starting at `start`, resyncing at a newline when it is unterminated. */
+function skipQuoted(source: string, start: number): number {
+  const quote = source[start];
+  let index = start + 1;
+  while (index < source.length) {
+    const char = source[index];
+    if (char === "\\") {
+      index += 2;
+    } else if (char === quote) {
+      return index + 1;
+    } else if (char === "\n") {
+      return index;
+    } else {
+      index += 1;
+    }
+  }
+  return source.length;
+}
+
+/** Decide whether the slash at `index` opens a regex literal rather than a division. */
+function opensRegexLiteral(source: string, index: number, previous: string, previousWord: string): boolean {
+  if (previousWord === regexPrefixKeyword || regexPrefixCharacters.has(previous)) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  for (let back = index - 1; back >= 0; back -= 1) {
+    const char = source[back];
+    if (char === "\n") {
+      return true;
+    }
+    if (char !== " " && char !== "\t" && char !== "\r") {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+/** Read the regex literal opened at `start`, or undefined when the slash turns out to be an operator. */
+function readRegexLiteral(source: string, start: number): RegexLiteral | undefined {
+  let index = start + 1;
+  let inCharacterClass = false;
+  while (index < source.length) {
+    const char = source[index];
+    if (char === "\\") {
+      if (source[index + 1] === "\n") {
+        return undefined;
+      }
+      index += 2;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (char === "\n") {
+      // An unescaped newline cannot appear in a regex literal, so this was a division.
+      return undefined;
+    }
+    if (char === "[") {
+      inCharacterClass = true;
+    } else if (char === "]") {
+      inCharacterClass = false;
+    } else if (char === "/" && !inCharacterClass) {
+      let end = index + 1;
+      while (end < source.length && (source[end] as string) >= "a" && (source[end] as string) <= "z") {
+        end += 1;
+      }
+      if (identifierCharacter.test(source[end] ?? "")) {
+        // An identifier right after the flags means the slashes were operators.
+        return undefined;
+      }
+      return { index: start, text: source.slice(start, end) };
+    }
+    index += 1;
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Collect the regex literals of one module, stepping over comments, quoted
+ * strings and template literals so their contents are never read as source.
+ */
+function findRegexLiterals(source: string): RegexLiteral[] {
+  const literals: RegexLiteral[] = [];
+  const modes: ScanMode[] = ["code"];
+  const substitutionDepths: number[] = [];
+  let braceDepth = 0;
+  let previous = "";
+  let previousWord = "";
+  let index = 0;
+
+  while (index < source.length) {
+    const char = source[index] as string;
+
+    if (modes.at(-1) === "template") {
+      if (char === "\\") {
+        index += 2;
+      } else if (char === "`") {
+        modes.pop();
+        previous = "`";
+        previousWord = "";
+        index += 1;
+      } else if (char === "$" && source[index + 1] === "{") {
+        modes.push("code");
+        substitutionDepths.push(braceDepth);
+        braceDepth += 1;
+        previous = "{";
+        previousWord = "";
+        index += 2;
+      } else {
+        index += 1;
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (char === " " || char === "\t" || char === "\r" || char === "\n") {
+      index += 1;
+    } else if (char === "/" && source[index + 1] === "/") {
+      while (index < source.length && source[index] !== "\n") {
+        index += 1;
+      }
+    } else if (char === "/" && source[index + 1] === "*") {
+      const end = source.indexOf("*/", index + 2);
+      index = end < 0 ? source.length : end + 2;
+    } else if (char === '"' || char === "'") {
+      index = skipQuoted(source, index);
+      previous = char;
+      previousWord = "";
+    } else if (char === "`") {
+      modes.push("template");
+      index += 1;
+    } else if (char === "{") {
+      braceDepth += 1;
+      previous = char;
+      previousWord = "";
+      index += 1;
+    } else if (char === "}") {
+      braceDepth -= 1;
+      if (modes.length > 1 && braceDepth === substitutionDepths.at(-1)) {
+        substitutionDepths.pop();
+        modes.pop();
+        // The substitution resolves to a value, so a following slash is a division.
+        previous = "`";
+      } else {
+        previous = char;
+      }
+      previousWord = "";
+      index += 1;
+    } else if (identifierCharacter.test(char)) {
+      let end = index;
+      while (end < source.length && identifierCharacter.test(source[end] as string)) {
+        end += 1;
+      }
+      previousWord = source.slice(index, end);
+      previous = source[end - 1] as string;
+      index = end;
+    } else {
+      const literal =
+        char === "/" && opensRegexLiteral(source, index, previous, previousWord)
+          ? readRegexLiteral(source, index)
+          : undefined;
+      if (literal === undefined) {
+        previous = char;
+        previousWord = "";
+        index += 1;
+      } else {
+        literals.push(literal);
+        previous = "/";
+        previousWord = "";
+        index += literal.text.length;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return literals;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A regex literal is the one place a bundler cannot re-encode a character.
+ * esbuild's minifier rewrites non-ASCII inside a string literal as a `\u`
+ * escape, but it has to reproduce a regex literal verbatim, so a character
+ * above U+00FF written there survives into the bundled Workers script. V8
+ * stores a string one byte per character only while every character fits in
+ * Latin-1, so that single character makes the isolate hold the entire script as
+ * two-byte UTF-16: the 14.5 MB minified script costs 27.6 MiB instead of
+ * 13.8 MiB, against a 128 MB isolate heap limit. Writing the character as a
+ * `\uXXXX` escape inside the regex keeps the pattern identical and the source
+ * one-byte.
+ */
+function findNonLatin1RegexCharacters(path: string, source: string): string[] {
+  const offenders: string[] = [];
+  for (const literal of findRegexLiterals(source)) {
+    for (const char of literal.text) {
+      const code = char.codePointAt(0) as number;
+      if (code <= 0xff) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const line = source.slice(0, literal.index).split("\n").length;
+      const point = `U+${code.toString(16).toUpperCase().padStart(4, "0")}`;
+      offenders.push(`${relative(repoDir, path)}:${line} (${point})`);
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  return offenders;
+}
+
+describe("provider regex charset guard", () => {
+  it("keeps every regex literal inside Latin-1", () => {
+    const files = listSourceFiles(sourceDir);
+    const offenders: string[] = [];
+    let literals = 0;
+    for (const path of files) {
+      const source = readFileSync(path, "utf8");
+      literals += findRegexLiterals(source).length;
+      offenders.push(...findNonLatin1RegexCharacters(path, source));
+    }
+
+    expect(
+      offenders,
+      "a regex literal cannot be re-encoded by the bundler, and one character above U+00FF makes V8 keep the whole Workers script as a two-byte string; write it as a \\uXXXX escape instead",
+    ).toEqual([]);
+    expect(
+      files.length,
+      "the source walk found almost nothing, so this guard protects nothing; check that it still points at src/",
+    ).toBeGreaterThan(minimumScannedFiles);
+    expect(
+      literals,
+      "the scanner recognized almost no regex literals, so this guard protects nothing; check that it still tracks comments, strings and template literals",
+    ).toBeGreaterThan(minimumScannedLiterals);
+  });
+});