try catch not work if path include unicode

Version

v20.10.0

Platform

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0 x64

Subsystem

node:internal/fs/promises

What steps will reproduce the bug?

run code:

import fsp from 'node:fs/promises'

async function run() {
  try {
    await fsp
      .readdir('中文-にほんご-한글-🌕🌖🌗', {
        withFileTypes: true,
        encoding: 'utf-16le',
      })
      .catch((error) => {})
  } catch (error) {}
}

run()

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

No response

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

No Error in terminal

What do you see instead?

Error in terminal:

Additional information

No response

I can't reproduce on macOS.

Reproducible on Windows.

import fsp from 'node:fs/promises'

try {
  await fsp
    .readdir('中文-にほんご-한글-🌕🌖🌗', {
      withFileTypes: true,
      encoding: 'utf-16le',
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.log('.catch', error)
    })
} catch (error) {
  console.log('try catch')
}

It does catch some error but not the expected one.

node index.mjs
.catch TypeError: Cannot destructure property '0' of 'undefined' as it is undefined.
    at getDirents (node:internal/fs/utils:249:32)
    at node:internal/util:442:7
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at getDirents (node:internal/util:428:12)
    at Object.readdir (node:internal/fs/promises:864:5)
    at async file:///<redact>/index.mjs:4:3
node:internal/fs/promises:857
  const result = await binding.readdir(
                               ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir
    at Object.readdir (node:internal/fs/promises:857:32)
    at file:///<redact>/index.mjs:5:6
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:218:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:329:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:34:7)
    at async handleMainPromise (node:internal/modules/run_main:113:12) {
  errno: -4058,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'scandir'
}

Node.js v20.10.0

It can be reproduced on my Windows from v20.4.0. as mentioned in #48673 (comment), that maybe because that libuv introduced WTF-8. and as mentioned in #48673 (comment) , it has been fixed since v21.5.0

This breaking regression bug is still not fixed in 20.x "LTS" while it was fixed in "Current" 21.x in December, 2 months ago.

I noted it in multiple issues and PRs.

Since this issue has not been active in over a year and there are currently LTS versions that have a fix, I'll close it. If needed, feel free to reopen.

Whatever was done here may have broken some other cases:

Node 22 broke readdir on Windows UNC paths #58223

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