Attempts to fix busted character encodings carried over from legacy text formats. This is a work-in-progress and not yet ready for production use.
yarn add utfu || npm install utfu
Pass a string to either method, hex or txt. The former tries to do a regex search and replace for unicode chars. The latter tries to do a search and replace for characters in their typical misrendering (see chart here).
import utfu from 'utfu'
const dirtyText = 'On a certain level, it�s like shouting �fire� in a crowded theater.'
const cleanText = utfu.hex(dirtyText) || utfu.txt(dirtyText)
// --> 'On a certain level, itâs like shouting âfireâ in a crowded theater.'
yarn run test
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Replaces busted characters carried over from legacy text encodings with the proper UTF-8 characters.
The npm package utfu receives a total of 22 weekly downloads. As such, utfu popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that utfu 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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