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 had same problem, but with CP1250. I was looking for problem everywhere and everything was OK, except call of request – I had to add encoding: 'binary'.

request = require('request')
Iconv  = require('iconv').Iconv

request({uri: url, encoding: 'binary'}, function(err, response, body) {
    body = new Buffer(body, 'binary')
    iconv = new Iconv('CP1250', 'UTF8')
    body = iconv.convert(body).toString()
    // ...
})