diff --git a/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.test.ts b/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.test.ts
index f7ffe27202..1adc66e7eb 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.test.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.test.ts
@@ -94,44 +94,83 @@ it.each(["PYZ\0", "BAD\0"])(
   },
 );
 
-it("rejects a PYZ table whose back-references repeat one long row", async () => {
-  // One namespace row with a 16 KiB name, flagged for reference, then 999
-  // back-references to it. The table is about 21 KiB but would expand to
-  // 16 MiB of entry names.
-  const name = Buffer.alloc(16 * 1024, 0x61);
-  const refs = 1_000;
-  const row = Buffer.concat([
-    Buffer.from([0x28 | 0x80]),
-    int32(2),
-    Buffer.from([0x61]),
-    int32(name.length),
-    name,
-    Buffer.from([0x29, 3, 0x69]),
-    int32(3),
-    Buffer.from([0x69]),
-    int32(0),
-    Buffer.from([0x69]),
-    int32(0),
-  ]);
-  const reference = Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([0x72]), int32(0)]);
-  const table = Buffer.concat([
-    Buffer.from([0x5b]),
-    int32(refs),
-    row,
-    ...Array.from({ length: refs - 1 }, () => reference),
-  ]);
-  const header = Buffer.alloc(12);
-  header.write("PYZ\0");
-  PYTHON_39_MAGIC.copy(header, 4);
-  header.writeUInt32BE(12, 8);
-  const image = Buffer.concat([header, table]);
-  expect(image.length).toBeLessThan(32 * 1024);
+it.each([0x61, 0xe9])(
+  "rejects a PYZ table whose back-references repeat one long row (byte %i)",
+  async (byte) => {
+    // One namespace row with a 16 KiB name, flagged for reference, then 999
+    // back-references to it. The table is about 21 KiB but would expand to
+    // 16 or 32 MiB of UTF-8 entry names.
+    const name = Buffer.alloc(16 * 1024, byte);
+    const refs = 1_000;
+    const row = Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([0x28 | 0x80]),
+      int32(2),
+      Buffer.from([0x61]),
+      int32(name.length),
+      name,
+      Buffer.from([0x29, 3, 0x69]),
+      int32(3),
+      Buffer.from([0x69]),
+      int32(0),
+      Buffer.from([0x69]),
+      int32(0),
+    ]);
+    const reference = Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([0x72]), int32(0)]);
+    const table = Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([0x5b]),
+      int32(refs),
+      row,
+      ...Array.from({ length: refs - 1 }, () => reference),
+    ]);
+    const header = Buffer.alloc(12);
+    header.write("PYZ\0");
+    PYTHON_39_MAGIC.copy(header, 4);
+    header.writeUInt32BE(12, 8);
+    const image = Buffer.concat([header, table]);
+    expect(image.length).toBeLessThan(32 * 1024);
 
-  const parsed = await readImage(image);
-  expect(parsed).toMatchObject({ ok: false, error: { reason: "limit" } });
-  if (parsed.ok) return;
-  expect(parsed.error.message).toContain("expand past");
-});
+    const parsed = await readImage(image);
+    expect(parsed).toMatchObject({ ok: false, error: { reason: "limit" } });
+    if (parsed.ok) return;
+    expect(parsed.error.message).toContain("expand past");
+  },
+);
+
+it.each([0x61, 0x41, 0x7a, 0x5a, 0x75])(
+  "preserves namespace text from one-byte and UTF-8 marshal encodings (tag %i)",
+  async (tag) => {
+    const name = "é".repeat(64);
+    const encoded = Buffer.from(name, tag === 0x75 ? "utf8" : "latin1");
+    const table = Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([0x5b]),
+      int32(1),
+      Buffer.from([0x29, 2, tag]),
+      tag === 0x7a || tag === 0x5a
+        ? Buffer.from([encoded.length])
+        : int32(encoded.length),
+      encoded,
+      Buffer.from([0x29, 3, 0x69]),
+      int32(3),
+      Buffer.from([0x69]),
+      int32(0),
+      Buffer.from([0x69]),
+      int32(0),
+    ]);
+    const image = pyzArchive({
+      magic: PYTHON_39_MAGIC,
+      modules: [],
+      toc: table,
+    });
+    expect(await readImage(image)).toMatchObject({
+      ok: true,
+      value: {
+        kind: "entries",
+        sha256: createHash("sha256").update(image).digest("hex"),
+        entries: [{ name, role: "namespace", typeCode: 3, length: 0 }],
+      },
+    });
+  },
+);
 
 const int32 = (value: number): Buffer => {
   const bytes = Buffer.alloc(4);
diff --git a/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.ts b/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.ts
index f25d63fea9..f0408e1e54 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/pyinstaller/PyzArchive.ts
@@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ const parsePyzParts = (
 
 /**
  * Marshal back-references let one stored row appear many times, so a small
- * table can name far more bytes than it holds. Each genuine entry stores its
- * own name inline, so the expanded names can never exceed the table itself.
+ * table can name far more bytes than it holds. Inline one-byte Unicode names
+ * can double in UTF-8; UTF-8 marshal names do not expand. Allow that decoding
+ * expansion while bounding the total names repeated by back-references.
  */
 const pyzEntries = (
   value: MarshalValue,
@@ -193,16 +194,17 @@ const pyzEntries = (
       pyInstallerFailure("format", "PYZ table of contents is not a list"),
     );
   const entries: PyzEntry[] = [];
+  const nameByteBudget = tableBytes * 2;
   let nameBytes = 0;
   for (const item of value) {
     const entry = onePyzEntry(item, payloadEnd, entries.length);
     if (!entry.ok) return entry;
     nameBytes += Buffer.byteLength(entry.value.name, "utf8");
-    if (nameBytes > tableBytes)
+    if (nameBytes > nameByteBudget)
       return err(
         pyInstallerFailure(
           "limit",
-          `PYZ table entry names expand past the ${String(tableBytes)}-byte table that stores them`,
+          `PYZ table entry names expand past the ${String(nameByteBudget)}-byte decoded-name budget`,
         ),
       );
     entries.push(entry.value);