使用Windows 1252在node.js中编码字符串

Question

I want to encode a string in Node.js using windows-1252 encoding scheme. How can I do that ?

Answer 1

I just had the same problem when retrieving data from old websites with ANSI (windows-1252) encoding. Some characters come out messed up. like:

Here is how I solved. Based on the API doc :

var req = http.request(options, (res) => {
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', (chunk) => {
    console.log(`BODY: ${chunk}`);
  });
  res.on('end', () => {
    console.log('No more data in response.');
  });
});

Just change res.setEncoding('utf8'); into res.setEncoding('binary'); . It seems to accept both utf8 and ansi encoding without messing the accents.

res.setEncoding('binary');

Answer 2

You can use any of these packages. Just go through the guide. First one is exactly meant for what you need. The other one takes care of many more legacy encoding.

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/windows-1252

https://www.npmjs.com/package/legacy-encoding