diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e6f9019..09f720c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "stringstream",
-  "version": "0.0.5",
+  "version": "0.0.6",
   "description": "Encode and decode streams into string streams",
   "author": "Michael Hart <michael.hart.au@gmail.com> (http://github.com/mhart)",
   "main": "stringstream.js",
diff --git a/stringstream.js b/stringstream.js
index 4ece127..6732b9d 100644
--- a/stringstream.js
+++ b/stringstream.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ StringStream.prototype.write = function(data) {
     return false
   }
   if (this.fromEncoding) {
-    if (Buffer.isBuffer(data)) data = data.toString()
+    if (Buffer.isBuffer(data) || typeof data === 'number') data = data.toString()
     data = new Buffer(data, this.fromEncoding)
   }
   var string = this.decoder.write(data)