Node.js unicode issue with HTTP response body

Question

The response body of HTTP requests using the native \'http\' module, displays question mark characters for unicode chars, instead of their actual value. Here\'s the basic sn

Answer 1

I set response.setEncoding('binary'); and it works. No idea why though.

Reference: http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/3bd3935b1f42a5f4?pli=1

In my case I've got some wrong characters due to windows-1252 charset of an old webpage.

I just used encode: 'binary' in the request options and it worked!