legacy-encoding
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Support as many legacy encodings as possible
npm install legacy-encoding
legacy.encode(input, encoding, options)This function takes a plain text string (the input parameter) and encodes it acording the encoding. The return value is a 'byte string', i.e. a string of which each item represents an octet as per encoding.
var legacy = require('legacy-encoding');
var encodedData = legacy.encode(text, encoding);
The optional options object and its mode property can be used to set the error mode. For encoding, the error mode can be 'fatal' (the default) or 'html'.
var legacy = require('legacy-encoding');
var encodedData = legacy.encode(text, encoding, {
'mode': 'html'
});
// If `text` contains a symbol that cannot be represented in the encoding,
// instead of throwing an error, it will return an HTML entity for the symbol.
To get a node.js buffer rather than a binary string, just call the Buffer constructor:
var legacy = require('legacy-encoding');
var buf = new Buffer(legacy.encode(text, encoding), 'binary');
legacy.decode(input, encoding, options)This function takes a byte string (the input parameter) and decodes it according to encoding.
var legacy = require('legacy-encoding');
var text = legacy.decode(encodedData, encoding);
The optional options object and its mode property can be used to set the error mode. For decoding, the error mode can be 'replacement' (the default) or 'fatal'.
var text = windows1255.decode(encodedData, encoding, {
'mode': 'fatal'
});
// If `encodedData` contains an invalid byte for the encoding,
// instead of replacing it with U+FFFD in the output, an error is thrown.
To usa a node.js buffer rather than a binary string, just call the .toString('binary') method:
var legacy = require('legacy-encoding');
var text = legacy.decode(buf.toString('binary'), encoding);
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Support as many legacy encodings as possible
The npm package legacy-encoding receives a total of 4,000 weekly downloads. As such, legacy-encoding popularity was classified as popular.
We found that legacy-encoding demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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