UTF8 seems to be the default encoding. I think he had just forgotten to update the docs for .write: http://github.com/ry/node/commit/7fc794a8ec55bd9d137c48884

UTF8 seems to be the default encoding. I think he had just forgotten to update the docs for .write: http://github.com/ry/node/commit/7fc794a8ec55bd9d137c48884043e76e8face916 http://github.com/ry/node/commit/7fc794a8ec55bd9d137c4888404...