title: JS and text encoding
body: <p>I have a text file with accented characters like é. I used File Encoding Checker, it appears that the file is encoded as windows-1252.
  I read the file with the following JS and node.js code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fs.readFile('frenchVerbsList.txt','utf-8', function(err, data) {
      if (err) {
          return console.log("ERROR here!: " + err);
      }
      frenchWords = data.split('\r\n');
      console.log(frenchWords);
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output from the console.log statement shows a question mark instead of the accented characters.
  What has happened?</p>