Encoding conversion of a fetch response

Question

Inside a React Native method I\'m fetching a xml encoded in ISO-8859-1.

As long as the fetching is completed I\'m trying to convert it to UTF-8.

Here the cod

Answer 1

The best workaround is to use res.arrayBuffer() instead res.text(), as long the Buffer constructor accepts ArrayBuffer

The code:

fetch('http://www.band.uol.com.br/rss/colunista_64.xml')
      .then(res => res.arrayBuffer())
      .then(arrayBuffer => iconv.decode(new Buffer(arrayBuffer), 'iso-8859-1').toString())
      .then(converted => console.log(converted))