From b9b5eaccaeef615cad1465cbed6cab6d60a3c65f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Conway-Jones <conway@dcjmac.hursley.uk.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:27:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better handle utf8 file output chars

---
 nodes/core/storage/50-file.js | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/nodes/core/storage/50-file.js b/nodes/core/storage/50-file.js
index 4f4c82d74..bb90927e7 100644
--- a/nodes/core/storage/50-file.js
+++ b/nodes/core/storage/50-file.js
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                 if (typeof data === "boolean") { data = data.toString(); }
                 if (typeof data === "number") { data = data.toString(); }
                 if ((this.appendNewline) && (!Buffer.isBuffer(data))) { data += os.EOL; }
+                data = new Buffer(data);
                 if (this.overwriteFile === "true") {
                     // using "binary" not {encoding:"binary"} to be 0.8 compatible for a while
                     fs.writeFile(filename, data, "binary", function (err) {