diff --git a/.nvmrc b/.nvmrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bd5a0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.nvmrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+22
diff --git a/docs/edit.html b/docs/edit.html
index acd1cb6..3ef4dbb 100644
--- a/docs/edit.html
+++ b/docs/edit.html
@@ -446,7 +446,16 @@
 function decodeURL(s) {
   s = decodeURIComponent(s)
   if (s.startsWith("http")) s;
-  return atob(s.replace(/=/g,''));
+  return atou(s.replace(/=/g,''));
+}
+
+// UTF-8-safe base64. Plain btoa throws on any character above U+00FF, so a
+// pasted SVG containing an emoji or a checkmark would fail outright, and one
+// containing an accent would silently encode as Latin-1 and render as mojibake.
+function utoa(data) { return btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(data))); }
+function atou(b64) {
+  const bytes = atob(b64);
+  try { return decodeURIComponent(escape(bytes)); } catch (e) { return bytes; }
 }
 
 
@@ -455,7 +464,7 @@
   let path = ["/" + encodePrettyComponent(data.title)];
   if (data.description) path.push("d/" + encodePrettyComponent(data.description.substring(0,200).split(". ").shift()));
   if (data.favicon) path.push("f/" + encodeURIComponent(data.favicon));
-  if (data.image) path.push("i/" + encodeURIComponent(btoa(data.image).replace(/=/g, "")));
+  if (data.image) path.push("i/" + encodeURIComponent(utoa(data.image).replace(/=/g, "")));
   return "/m" + path.join('/') + "/";
 }
 
diff --git a/netlify/edge-functions/metadata.js b/netlify/edge-functions/metadata.js
index 7d9d699..5fa186b 100644
--- a/netlify/edge-functions/metadata.js
+++ b/netlify/edge-functions/metadata.js
@@ -8,7 +8,15 @@ function decodeURL(s) {
   if (s.startsWith(".")) return s;
   if (s.startsWith("/")) return s;
   try {
-    return atob(s.replace(/=/g,''))
+    const bytes = atob(s.replace(/=/g,''))
+    // atob yields Latin-1. Recover UTF-8 so pasted SVG containing accents or
+    // emoji survives; fall back to the raw bytes for genuinely Latin-1 payloads
+    // written by older versions of the editor.
+    try {
+      return decodeURIComponent(escape(bytes))
+    } catch (e) {
+      return bytes
+    }
   } catch (e) {
     return s;
   }
@@ -17,6 +25,52 @@ function decodeURL(s) {
 function atou(b64) { return decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(b64))); }
 function utoa(data) { return btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(data))); }
 
+// Shared SVG->PNG renderer: https://github.com/arfct/og-svg
+export const RENDER_ORIGIN = "https://og-svg.arfct.workers.dev";
+
+// Builds a render URL from an SVG payload.
+//
+// The payload is passed through byte-for-byte rather than re-encoded, because it
+// may be base64, percent-encoded, or raw markup depending on who wrote the URL.
+// og-svg tries base64 first and falls back to percent-decoding, and wraps a bare
+// fragment in an <svg> root, so all of those work.
+function renderUrl(payload) {
+  return `${RENDER_ORIGIN}/png?s=${encodeURIComponent(payload)}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolves the `i` field to a final og:image URL.
+ *
+ * The editor base64-encodes whatever is in the image field with no marker
+ * (docs/edit.html), so a user who pastes SVG code — which the prompt invites —
+ * arrives here as raw markup. That used to fall through to the bare-hostname
+ * branch and produce `og:image="https://<svg xmlns=..."`, i.e. no preview at
+ * all. Markup is now detected directly, so both a pasted SVG and an explicit
+ * `svg:` payload reach the renderer.
+ *
+ * @param {string|undefined} raw the `i` value from the path
+ * @param {string|undefined} targetUrl the `u` value, for resolving relatives
+ * @returns {string} the og:image URL, or "" when there is nothing to show
+ */
+export function resolveImageUrl(raw, targetUrl) {
+  if (!raw) return "";
+
+  const value = decodeURL(raw);
+
+  if (value.startsWith("svg:")) return renderUrl(value.substring(4));
+
+  // Raw SVG markup, or a bare fragment og-svg will wrap for us.
+  if (value.trimStart().startsWith("<")) return renderUrl(value);
+
+  if (value.startsWith("http")) return value;
+
+  if (targetUrl && (value.startsWith(".") || value.startsWith("/"))) {
+    return new URL(value, targetUrl).href;
+  }
+
+  return "https://" + value;
+}
+
 let urlValues = ["u","i","v","f"];
 function pathToMetadata(path) {
   let components = path.substring(1).split("/");
@@ -84,16 +138,9 @@ export default async (request, context) => {
         }
         
         if (info.i) {
-          info.i = decodeURL(info.i)
-          if (info.i.startsWith("svg:")) {
-            info.i = "/.netlify/functions/rasterize/" + info.i;
-          } else if (info.u && (info.i.startsWith(".") || info.i.startsWith("/"))) {
-            info.i = new URL(info.i, info.u).href
-          } else {
-            info.i = "https://" + info.i;
-          }
+          info.i = resolveImageUrl(info.i, info.u)
 
-          content.push(mProp("og:image", info.i)); 
+          content.push(mProp("og:image", info.i));
           if (info.iw) content.push(mProp("og:image:width", info.iw)); 
           if (info.ih) content.push(mProp("og:image:width", info.ih)); 
           content.push(mName("twitter:card", "summary_large_image"));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 984576c..c184045 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     "doc": "docs"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+    "test": "vitest run"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     "tweetnacl": "^1.0.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "netlify-cli": "^27.0.1"
+    "netlify-cli": "^27.0.1",
+    "vitest": "^4.1.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/image-url.test.js b/test/image-url.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5fa315
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image-url.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { resolveImageUrl, RENDER_ORIGIN } from "../netlify/edge-functions/metadata.js";
+
+const SVG =
+  '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="600" height="315"><rect width="600" height="315" fill="teal"/></svg>';
+
+// What docs/edit.html writes into the path for an image value.
+const asEditorEncodes = (value) => utf8Base64(value).replace(/=/g, "");
+
+// UTF-8-safe base64, matching the repo's existing utoa() helper.
+const utf8Base64 = (value) => btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(value)));
+
+describe("resolveImageUrl", () => {
+  it("sends SVG markup pasted into the editor to the renderer", () => {
+    // The editor base64s the value with no svg: marker, so after decoding we
+    // hold raw markup. This previously produced "https://<svg ...".
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(asEditorEncodes(SVG));
+    expect(out.startsWith(`${RENDER_ORIGIN}/png?s=`)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("never produces an https:// prefixed blob of markup", () => {
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(asEditorEncodes(SVG));
+    expect(out).not.toContain("https://<svg");
+  });
+
+  it("still handles an explicit svg: marker", () => {
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(`svg:${asEditorEncodes(SVG)}`);
+    expect(out.startsWith(`${RENDER_ORIGIN}/png?s=`)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("sends a bare fragment to the renderer", () => {
+    // og-svg wraps a fragment in an <svg> root with a default viewport.
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(asEditorEncodes('<circle cx="60" cy="60" r="50"/>'));
+    expect(out.startsWith(`${RENDER_ORIGIN}/png?s=`)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("round-trips the markup through the renderer payload", () => {
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(asEditorEncodes(SVG));
+    const payload = decodeURIComponent(new URL(out).searchParams.get("s"));
+    // The payload must decode back to the original markup, base64 or otherwise.
+    const decoded = /^</.test(payload) ? payload : atob(payload);
+    expect(decoded).toContain('fill="teal"');
+  });
+
+  it("preserves non-ASCII text in pasted SVG", () => {
+    // btoa is Latin-1 only, so 'é' arrives as a raw 0xE9 byte that is not valid
+    // UTF-8. Decoding must recover the character, or resvg rejects the document.
+    const svg =
+      '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="200">' +
+      '<text x="30" y="120">café</text></svg>';
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(utf8Base64(svg));
+    const payload = decodeURIComponent(new URL(out).searchParams.get("s"));
+    const decoded = /^</.test(payload) ? payload : payload;
+    expect(decoded).toContain("café");
+  });
+
+  it("tolerates a Latin-1 encoded payload from the old editor", () => {
+    // Links built before the editor switched to UTF-8-safe base64.
+    const svg = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><text>café</text></svg>';
+    const latin1 = btoa(svg).replace(/=/g, "");
+    expect(() => resolveImageUrl(latin1)).not.toThrow();
+    expect(resolveImageUrl(latin1)).toContain(`${RENDER_ORIGIN}/png?s=`);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an absolute https url alone", () => {
+    const url = "https://cdn.example.com/a.jpg";
+    expect(resolveImageUrl(url)).toBe(url);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an absolute http url alone", () => {
+    const url = "http://cdn.example.com/a.jpg";
+    expect(resolveImageUrl(url)).toBe(url);
+  });
+
+  it("resolves a relative path against the target url", () => {
+    expect(resolveImageUrl("/img/a.png", "https://example.com/page")).toBe(
+      "https://example.com/img/a.png",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("resolves a dot-relative path against the target url", () => {
+    expect(resolveImageUrl("./a.png", "https://example.com/dir/page")).toBe(
+      "https://example.com/dir/a.png",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("prefixes a bare hostname with https", () => {
+    expect(resolveImageUrl("cdn.example.com/a.jpg")).toBe("https://cdn.example.com/a.jpg");
+  });
+
+  it("returns an empty string for no input", () => {
+    expect(resolveImageUrl(undefined)).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("does not treat a base64 payload that decodes to a url as svg", () => {
+    const out = resolveImageUrl(asEditorEncodes("https://cdn.example.com/b.jpg"));
+    expect(out).toBe("https://cdn.example.com/b.jpg");
+  });
+});