i18n: [NEXT] Crashes on rc.9 and rc.10 `Only file and data URLs are supported by the default ESM loader`

Version

@nuxtjs/i18n: @nuxtjs/i18n@8.0.0-alpha.1-27710980.d1ee9d2 nuxt: 3.0.0-rc.9

Nuxt configuration

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• Applies to a site deployed to a static server (site generated with nuxt generate)
• Applies to a site deployed to a server with a Node backend

Reproduction Link

I tried updating from rc8 to rc9 today and got the error message below when trying to start in dev mode. Tried deleting .nuxt, node_modules as well as package-lock.json to get a fresh install but it all resulted in the same error. Same story for rc10 and edge rc11.

https://github.com/warflash/nuxt_7426

Steps to reproduce

Clone the repo on windows and run npm run dev

What is Expected?

The instance starts as normal

What is actually happening?

500
Only file and data URLs are supported by the default ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'f:'

at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:371:5)
at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1016:11)
at ESMLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:422:30)
at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:222:40)
at ModuleWrap. (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:76:40)
at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:75:36)