Character set issues with non ASCII titles of papers

[jkonert]

I have issues with German umlaut characters in the resultset. (äüöß) They are broken.
As there is no parameter for the charset I assumed the module google-scholar would use UTF8, but seems not.
Attached a sample screenshot of some of the broken titles.

[hcientist]

weird. thanks for pointing it out. it should be fairly simple to fix. PRs welcome (-;

[hcientist]

Even weirder: the module we're using to make the request to google ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/request ) says,

encoding - encoding to be used on setEncoding of response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer. Anything else (including the default value of undefined) will be passed as the encoding parameter to toString() (meaning this is effectively utf8 by default). (Note: if you expect binary data, you should set encoding: null.)