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Next.js 16 build error

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When receiving the following error during building PayloadCMS in Next.js 16 when including .md files from node_modules:

1Reading source code for parsing failed
2An unexpected error happened while trying to read the source code to parse: failed to convert rope into string
3
4Caused by:
5- invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 0

it's possible to add this to next.config.ts to ignore the loading of these files:

1turbopack: {
2 rules: {
3 '*.md': {
4 loaders: ['ignore-loader'],
5 as: '*.js',
6 },
7 },
8},