nodejs encoding using request

Question

nodejs encoding using request

I am trying to get the correct encoding with request.

request.get({
    "uri":'http://www.bold.dk/tv/',
    "encoding": "text/html;charset='charset=utf-8'"
  },
  function(err, resp, body){    
    console.log(body);
  }
);

No matter what I do the encoding of the danish chars are not right.

Any thoughts?

node.js
encoding

Answer 1

You can use iconv (lite) to convert this. You also need to tell request not to actively set the encoding to the default of UTF-8 by setting the encoding property to null. Therefore you should do:

var iconv = require('iconv-lite');
request.get({
    uri:'http://www.bold.dk/tv/',
    encoding: null
  },
  function(err, resp, body){    
    var bodyWithCorrectEncoding = iconv.decode(body, 'iso-8859-1');
    console.log(bodyWithCorrectEncoding);
  }
);