Gak - ionic build only produces numbers

Hi there, some time ago I upgraded npm and node and now when I do ionic build (v1 project) all I see are numbers. Any idea?

Node: 6.2.2
npm: 3.10.3
ionic 2.0.0-beta.30

invoking cordova build ios however works fine producing legible messages.

[pp@pp-MacBook-Pro:~/zmNinja]$ ionic build ios
(node:74298) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
 0=82, 1=117, 2=110, 3=110, 4=105, 5=110, 6=103, 7=32, 8=99, 9=111, 10=109, 11=109, 12=97, 13=110, 14=100, 15=58, 16=32, 17=47, 18=85, 19=115, 20=101, 21=114, 22=115, 23=47, 24=65, 25=114, 26=106, 27=117, 28=110, 29=47, 30=119, 31=105, 32=110, 33=115, 34=104, 35=97, 36=114, 37=101, 38=47, 39=97, 40=114, 41=106, 42=117, 43=110, 44=47, 45=112, 46=114, 47=111, 48=106, 49=101, 50=99, 51=116, 52=115, 53=47, 54=112, 55=104, 56=111, 57=110, 58=101, 59=103, 60=97, 61=112, 62=47, 63=122, 64=109, 65=78, 66=105, 67=110, 68=106, 69=97, 70=47, 71=104, 72=111, 73=111, 74=107, 75=115, 76=47, 77=98, 78=101, 79=102, 80=111, 81=114, 82=101, 83=95, 84=112, 85=114, 86=101, 87=112, 88=97, 89=114, 90=101, 91=47, 92=48, 93=49, 94=95, 95=112, 96=112, 97=95, 98=104, 99=97, 100=99, 101=107, 102=115, 103=46, 104=115, 105=104, 106=32, 107=47, 108=85, 109=115, 110=101, 111=114, 112=115, 113=47, 114=65, 115=114, 116=106, 117=117, 118=110, 119=47, 120=119, 121=105, 122=110, 123=115, 124=104, 125=97, 126=114, 127=101, 128=47, 129=97, 130=114, 131=106, 132=117, 133=110, 134=47, 135=112, 136=114, 137=111, 138=106, 139=101, 140=99, 141=116, 142=115, 143=47, 144=112, 145=104, 146=111, 147=110, 148=101, 149=103, 150=97, 151=112, 152=47, 153=122, 154=109, 155=78, 156=105, 157=110, 158=106, 159=97
 0=10

I’ve also confirmed this is a problem with a new v2 project as well

Okay, seems to be some issue with nodeJS 6.2.2
I downgraded to nodeJS 6.2.0 and its english again.

source: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7249