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Expand Up @@ -3528,6 +3528,13 @@ On Linux, positional writes don't work when the file is opened in append mode.
The kernel ignores the position argument and always appends the data to
the end of the file.

On Windows, if the file descriptor is connected to the console (e.g. `fd == 1`
or `stdout`) a string containing non-ASCII characters will not be rendered
properly by default, regardless of the encoding used.
It is possible to configure the console to render UTF-8 properly by changing the
active codepage with the `chcp 65001` command. See the [chcp][] docs for more
details.

## fs.writeFile(file, data[, options], callback)
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added: v0.1.29
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[MSDN-Using-Streams]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/using-streams
[support of file system `flags`]: #fs_file_system_flags
[File Access Constants]: #fs_file_access_constants
[chcp]: https://ss64.com/nt/chcp.html