net: properly account multi-byte chars in .bytesWritten

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/net.js b/lib/net.js
index 8404d6f44c..cb8e25ed60 100644
--- a/lib/net.js
+++ b/lib/net.js
@@ -381,13 +381,13 @@ Socket.prototype.write = function(data, arg1, arg2) {
     }
   }
 
-  this.bytesWritten += data.length;
-
   // Change strings to buffers. SLOW
   if (typeof data == 'string') {
     data = new Buffer(data, encoding);
   }
 
+  this.bytesWritten += data.length;
+
   // If we are still connecting, then buffer this for later.
   if (this._connecting) {
     this._connectQueueSize += data.length;