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

As is always the way, I spent a while Googling but found nothing until after I posted the question:

http://www.w3resource.com/node.js/nodejs-buffer.php has the answer. You can use the following types in .toString() on a buffer:

• ascii
• utf8
• utf16le
• ucs2 (alias of utf16le)
• base64
• binary
• hex