How to convert character encoding from CP932 to UTF-8 in nodejs javascript, using the nodejs-iconv module (or other solution)

Question

I\'m attempting to convert a string from CP932 (aka Windows-31J) to utf8 in javascript. Basically I\'m crawling a site that ignores the utf-8 request in the request header

Answer 1

I got same trouble today :)
It depends libiconv. You need libiconv-1.13-ja-1.patch.
Please check followings.

• http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ushiboy/20110422/1303481470
• http://code.xenophy.com/?p=1529

or you can avoid problem using iconv-jp try

npm install iconv-jp