# File node creates us-ascii files instead of utf8 on Armbian

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/file-node-creates-us-ascii-files-instead-of-utf8-on-armbian/22763>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [7 March 2020 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/file-node-creates-us-ascii-files-instead-of-utf8-on-armbian/22763 "2020-03-07T15:07:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![croco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@croco](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/croco)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2020 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/file-node-creates-us-ascii-files-instead-of-utf8-on-armbian/22763/1 "2020-03-07T15:07:03Z")

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Hello, I'm facing an irritating issue. While trying to save JSON using File node the file that is created nearly always has us-ascii encoing. It works well when JSON does not contain any special chars, but when I try to save "ł" letter as a part of the string things get messy because "ł" is saved as "B". In the end I get "PaweB" instead of "Paweł". What is interesting if I try to save other polish diactrical signs like "żółć" the file is created with iso-8859-1 encoding. My Node-RED instance is working on Orange Pi One board running Debian-based Armbian. This is really rather confusing because on that Armbian I've got all of the locale settings turned to us\_EN.utf8 as you can see below:

root@orangepione:# locale  
LANG=en\_US.UTF-8  
LANGUAGE=en\_US.UTF-8  
LC\_CTYPE="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_NUMERIC="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_TIME="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_COLLATE="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_MONETARY="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_MESSAGES="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_PAPER="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_NAME="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_ADDRESS="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_TELEPHONE="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_MEASUREMENT="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_IDENTIFICATION="en\_US.UTF-8"  
LC\_ALL=en\_US.UTF-8

Do you have any idea what can be wrong with those settings? The goal is to save the file with utf8 encoding.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 May 2020 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/file-node-creates-us-ascii-files-instead-of-utf8-on-armbian/22763/2 "2020-05-06T15:07:06Z")

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