What encodings does Buffer.toString() support?

Question

I\'m writing an app in node.js, and see that I can do things like this:

var buf = new Buffer(\"Hello World!\")
console.log(buf.toString(\"hex\"))
console.log         


        

Answer 1

The official node.js documentation for Buffer is the best place to check for something like this. As previously noted, Buffer currently supports these encodings: ascii, utf8, utf16le/ucs2, base64, binary, and hex.