Quick proof-of-concept for encoding

index.js

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ var path = require('path');
 var isBuffer = require('buffer').Buffer.isBuffer;
 
 var clone = require('clone');
+var iconv = require('iconv-lite');
+var shimmer = require('shimmer');
 var isStream = require('is-stream');
 var cloneable = require('cloneable-readable');
 var replaceExt = require('replace-ext');
@@ -49,6 +51,8 @@ function File(file) {
 
   this._symlink = null;
 
+  this._encoding = 'utf8';
+
   // Set custom properties
   Object.keys(file).forEach(function(key) {
     if (self.constructor.isCustomProp(key)) {
@@ -183,10 +187,34 @@ Object.defineProperty(File.prototype, 'contents', {
       val = cloneable(val);
     }
 
+    var self = this;;
+
+    if (isBuffer(val)) {
+      shimmer(val, 'toString', function(orig) {
+        return function() {
+          if (arguments.length) {
+            return orig.apply(this, arguments);
+          }
+
+          return iconv.decode(val, self.encoding);
+        };
+      });
+    }
+
     this._contents = val;
   },
 });
 
+Object.defineProperty(File.prototype, 'encoding', {
+  get: function() {
+    return this._encoding;
+  },
+  set: function(encoding) {
+    // TODO: validate encoding
+    this._encoding = encoding;
+  }
+})
+
 Object.defineProperty(File.prototype, 'cwd', {
   get: function() {
     return this._cwd;

package.json

@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@
     "clone-buffer": "^1.0.0",
     "clone-stats": "^1.0.0",
     "cloneable-readable": "^1.0.0",
+    "iconv-lite": "^0.4.18",
     "is-stream": "^1.1.0",
     "remove-trailing-separator": "^1.0.1",
-    "replace-ext": "^1.0.0"
+    "replace-ext": "^1.0.0",
+    "shimmer": "^1.1.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "eslint": "^1.7.3",