Nodejs jsdom encoding

Question

I am trying to parse a site with the following tag in the header

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

following word

Aflenz - Bürgeralm

My Node js Code:

//includes

    var jsdom = require("jsdom");
    var fs = require('fs');
    var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
    var Iconv  = require('iconv').Iconv;
    var iconv = new Iconv('iso-8859-1','utf-8');


 //parsing on callback from jsdom
        var name = $(".name_detail").html();
        console.log("db"+name);
        console.log("db"+iconv.convert(name).toString());

Output over ssh:

dbAflenz - B�rgeralm
dbAflenz - B�rgeralm

Thx in advance

Answer 1

You can try the following (JSDOM allows to make the request in binary format):

request({uri: url, encoding: 'binary'}, function(err, request, body) {
     ...
     body = new Buffer(body, 'binary')
     iconv = new Iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF8')
     body = iconv.convert(body).toString()

This would help solve the case for conversion.