Axios-module: Response returns weird characters

[johnRivs]

I'm making a request to an external API. Everything works fine except response.data is returning something like this:

!�♥  ♠��        ▲,Zp→↔�<☼D#�.
�8�(N ☼hHs'>☼1�;�_↑►↕�♂↔^a�/�♀����D0�}♫ԥ>V►�↨�09�����4]♣ghn�q��◄�v�aޏ[�↕��G↑�i>my■�♂� sX�<♂�1ܛ~�O����V�8]↨-IT�_↑

• nuxt 1.4.0
• @nuxtjs/axios ^5.1.1

nuxt.config.js

module.exports = {
    modules: [
        '@nuxtjs/axios',
    ],

    axios: {
        baseURL: 'https://www.example.com/api',
        progress: true,
        credentials: true
    },
};

_{This question is available on Nuxt.js community (#c109)}

[johnRivs]

Turns out it has to do with the default value of the accept-encoding header. The server I'm making calls to is using the br value in the header.

$axios.setHeader('accept-encoding', '*'); or gzip or null fixes it.

EDIT: null works better than *. You don't get Refused to set unsafe header "accept-encoding" in Chrome.