List of encodings that Node.js supports

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The list of encodings that node supports natively is rather short:

  • ascii
  • base64
  • base64url (Node v14+)
  • hex
  • ucs2/ucs-2/utf16le/utf-16le
  • utf8/utf-8
  • binary/latin1 (ISO8859-1, latin1 only in node 6.4.0+)

If you are using an older version than 6.4.0, or don’t want to deal with non-Unicode encodings, you can recode the string:

Use iconv-lite to recode files:

var iconvlite = require('iconv-lite');
var fs = require('fs');

function readFileSync_encoding(filename, encoding) {
    var content = fs.readFileSync(filename);
    return iconvlite.decode(content, encoding);
}

Alternatively, use iconv:

var Iconv = require('iconv').Iconv;
var fs = require('fs');

function readFileSync_encoding(filename, encoding) {
    var content = fs.readFileSync(filename);
    var iconv = new Iconv(encoding, 'UTF-8');
    var buffer = iconv.convert(content);
    return buffer.toString('utf8');
}

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