How to handle win-1251 in http.get response?

Question

Character encoding

There is some API, which is given in 1251 encoding. http.get in req.on('data', ...) returns buffer, buffer node does not support 1251 encoding, what should I do?

Answer 1

var iconv = new Iconv('windows-1251', 'UTF-8');
http.get(url, function (res) {
  res.on('data', function (buffer) {
    var html = iconv.convert(buffer).toString();
  });
});