diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index 86c4bfd6544..840bb6b785e 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ if (!config.noBrowserGlobals) {
   // https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#urlsearchparams
   exposeInterface(global, 'URLSearchParams', URLSearchParams);
 
-  const { TextEncoder, TextDecoder } = NativeModule.require('util');
+  const {
+    TextEncoder, TextDecoder
+  } = NativeModule.require('internal/encoding');
   // https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#textencoder
   exposeInterface(global, 'TextEncoder', TextEncoder);
   // https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#textdecoder