How to convert encoding from windows-1251 to UTF-8 in node.js?

Question

Node.js

I don’t understand why it doesn’t work
There is a page with charset=windows-1251
I get text from it using jsdom
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I try to convert

var iconv = new Iconv('windows-1251', 'UTF-8');
var x = iconv.convert(text);
console.log(x.toString());

As a result, I get krakozyabry

pїЅpїЅpїЅpїЅpїЅ

What could be the problem? On the page in the header, the encoding is windows-1251.

Answer 1

Here the problem is not with the conversion, but with the output of utf-8 text from the node on Windows: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/issues/2190
In short: run chcp 65001 in the console before starting the process node.exe

Answer 2

I had the same problem when getting html via request and fetch. Found a way out through the needle

Answer 3

How did you decide? Also the same problem.

Answer 4

If you need to determine an encoding that is unknown, then for Cyrillic texts here: https://github.com/nickkolok/node-autodetect-utf8-...

Answer 5

http.get(url, (stream) => {
            const w = fs.createWriteStream(`./content/${pathToFile}`);
            w.on('finish', () => {
                callback();
            });
            stream
                .pipe(iconv.decodeStream('win1251'))
                .pipe(iconv.encodeStream('utf8'))
                .pipe(w);
});

Works for me... iconv ^0.6.3, node v14.17.1