What encodings are available Node.js
encoding, node.js
Solution
Encodings available in Node.js:
- `ascii`: For 7-bit ASCII data only. This encoding is fast and will strip the high bit if set.
- `utf8`: Multibyte encoded Unicode characters. Many web pages and other document formats use UTF-8.
- `utf16le`: 2 or 4 bytes, little-endian encoded Unicode characters. Surrogate pairs (U+10000 to U+10FFFF) are supported.
- `ucs2`: Alias of `utf16le`.
- `base64`: Base64 encoding. When creating a Buffer from a string, this encoding will also correctly accept "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" as specified in RFC 4648, Section 5.
- `latin1`: A way of encoding the Buffer into a one-byte encoded string (as defined by the IANA in RFC 1345, page 63, to be the Latin-1 supplement block and C0/C1 control codes).
- `binary`: Alias for 'latin1'.
- `hex`: Encode each byte as two hexadecimal characters.
Source: Node 12 Buffer documentation
Problem
I'm trying to figure out what encodings are available in node.js. The documentation (http://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_new_buffer_str_encoding) says: `Allocates a new buffer containing the given str. encoding defaults to 'utf8'.` but nowhere is specified a list of available encodings. Maybe I missed it. I'm working on script which should be able to output in wide range of encodings. So far I know only about utf8 as doc is saying :) Thx, Jaro.