diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8b450b..02c52a5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 
 > Karma reporter for Teamcity CI.
 
+### TeamCity Setup 
+
+Ensure that your TeamCity project is configured to use UTF-8 stream encoding.
+See [this issue](https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-teamcity-reporter/issues/32#issuecomment-202270422) for more details.
+
 For more information on Karma see the [homepage].
 
 
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index e1abd83..300e1ca 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 var util = require('util')
-var fs = require('fs')
 
 var escapeMessage = function (message) {
   if (message === null || message === undefined) {
@@ -47,8 +46,6 @@ var TeamcityReporter = function (baseReporterDecorator) {
   baseReporterDecorator(this)
   var self = this
 
-  this.adapters = [fs.writeSync.bind(fs.writeSync, 1)]
-
   this.TEST_IGNORED = "##teamcity[testIgnored name='%s' flowId='']"
   this.SUITE_START = "##teamcity[testSuiteStarted name='%s' flowId='']"
   this.SUITE_END = "##teamcity[testSuiteFinished name='%s' flowId='']"