Document the encoding used for stdout

[jroper]

I'm writing a tool that invokes node, but I need to know what encoding it uses to convert Strings to bytes when you write them to stdout either through process.stdout or console.log, so that when I read them, I can use the correct encoding to transform the byte streams back to Strings. Is it the platform default encoding, is it hard coded to UTF-8, can it be overridden in any way? I couldn't find anywhere in the documentation that mentions this, which seems like a pretty important thing to document.

[indutny]

I'm +1 for adding method to changing default encoding on a writable stream. @tjfontaine or @trevnorris any objections? Right now the only way to do it is process.stdout._writableState.defaultEncoding = '...'.

[trevnorris]

I'm not opposed.

[indutny]

@jroper do you have any interest in contributing to node? ;)

[recursivefunk]

Opened a PR for this

[jroper]

Ha, I missed that comment made in February.

I was thinking... what if node was implemented in Scala...

[recursivefunk]

You sir, are brave lol @jroper

[recursivefunk]

Sorry for all the updates @indutny

[trevnorris]

Fixed by f04f3a0.