UTF8编码在Node JS中无法正常工作

Question

I have installed utf8 module in my node js sever:

here is my code

var utf8 = require('utf8');
console.log(utf8.encode('It’s a way of looking.'));
//output:- It’s a way of looking.

It's not producing same output as php does:

echo utf8_encode('It’s a way of looking.');
//output :- It’s a way of looking.

Is it a bug in utf8 module in node js or I'm doing something wrong?

Answer 1

’ is an HTML entity. If you're not viewing the output as HTML, then you will see it as ’ . If you want to output a particular character code in JavaScript, use a JavaScript escape sequence:

console.log(utf8.encode('It\u2019s a way of looking.'));

Answer 2

it's not utf8 encoding issue it's an html entity issue

here is the code:-

 var Entities = require('html-entities').XmlEntities;

    entities = new Entities();

    console.log(entities.decode('It’s a way of looking.'));
    //output:- It’s a way of looking.

thankyou @JLRishe for pointing it out.