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r789 | ## Pure JS character encoding conversion | |||
* Doesn't need native code compilation. Works on Windows and in sandboxed environments like [Cloud9](http://c9.io). | ||||
* Used in popular projects like [Express.js (body_parser)](https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser), | ||||
[Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/), [Nodemailer](http://www.nodemailer.com/), [Yeoman](http://yeoman.io/) and others. | ||||
* Faster than [node-iconv](https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-iconv) (see below for performance comparison). | ||||
* Intuitive encode/decode API | ||||
* Streaming support for Node v0.10+ | ||||
* [Deprecated] Can extend Node.js primitives (buffers, streams) to support all iconv-lite encodings. | ||||
* In-browser usage via [Browserify](https://github.com/substack/node-browserify) (~180k gzip compressed with Buffer shim included). | ||||
* Typescript [type definition file](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/blob/master/lib/index.d.ts) included. | ||||
* React Native is supported (need to explicitly `npm install` two more modules: `buffer` and `stream`). | ||||
* License: MIT. | ||||
[](https://npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite/) | ||||
[](https://travis-ci.org/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite) | ||||
[](https://npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite/) | ||||
[](https://npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite/) | ||||
[](https://npmjs.org/package/iconv-lite/) | ||||
## Usage | ||||
### Basic API | ||||
```javascript | ||||
var iconv = require('iconv-lite'); | ||||
// Convert from an encoded buffer to js string. | ||||
str = iconv.decode(Buffer.from([0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f]), 'win1251'); | ||||
// Convert from js string to an encoded buffer. | ||||
buf = iconv.encode("Sample input string", 'win1251'); | ||||
// Check if encoding is supported | ||||
iconv.encodingExists("us-ascii") | ||||
``` | ||||
### Streaming API (Node v0.10+) | ||||
```javascript | ||||
// Decode stream (from binary stream to js strings) | ||||
http.createServer(function(req, res) { | ||||
var converterStream = iconv.decodeStream('win1251'); | ||||
req.pipe(converterStream); | ||||
converterStream.on('data', function(str) { | ||||
console.log(str); // Do something with decoded strings, chunk-by-chunk. | ||||
}); | ||||
}); | ||||
// Convert encoding streaming example | ||||
fs.createReadStream('file-in-win1251.txt') | ||||
.pipe(iconv.decodeStream('win1251')) | ||||
.pipe(iconv.encodeStream('ucs2')) | ||||
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('file-in-ucs2.txt')); | ||||
// Sugar: all encode/decode streams have .collect(cb) method to accumulate data. | ||||
http.createServer(function(req, res) { | ||||
req.pipe(iconv.decodeStream('win1251')).collect(function(err, body) { | ||||
assert(typeof body == 'string'); | ||||
console.log(body); // full request body string | ||||
}); | ||||
}); | ||||
``` | ||||
### [Deprecated] Extend Node.js own encodings | ||||
> NOTE: This doesn't work on latest Node versions. See [details](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/wiki/Node-v4-compatibility). | ||||
```javascript | ||||
// After this call all Node basic primitives will understand iconv-lite encodings. | ||||
iconv.extendNodeEncodings(); | ||||
// Examples: | ||||
buf = new Buffer(str, 'win1251'); | ||||
buf.write(str, 'gbk'); | ||||
str = buf.toString('latin1'); | ||||
assert(Buffer.isEncoding('iso-8859-15')); | ||||
Buffer.byteLength(str, 'us-ascii'); | ||||
http.createServer(function(req, res) { | ||||
req.setEncoding('big5'); | ||||
req.collect(function(err, body) { | ||||
console.log(body); | ||||
}); | ||||
}); | ||||
fs.createReadStream("file.txt", "shift_jis"); | ||||
// External modules are also supported (if they use Node primitives, which they probably do). | ||||
request = require('request'); | ||||
request({ | ||||
url: "http://github.com/", | ||||
encoding: "cp932" | ||||
}); | ||||
// To remove extensions | ||||
iconv.undoExtendNodeEncodings(); | ||||
``` | ||||
## Supported encodings | ||||
* All node.js native encodings: utf8, ucs2 / utf16-le, ascii, binary, base64, hex. | ||||
* Additional unicode encodings: utf16, utf16-be, utf-7, utf-7-imap, utf32, utf32-le, and utf32-be. | ||||
* All widespread singlebyte encodings: Windows 125x family, ISO-8859 family, | ||||
IBM/DOS codepages, Macintosh family, KOI8 family, all others supported by iconv library. | ||||
Aliases like 'latin1', 'us-ascii' also supported. | ||||
* All widespread multibyte encodings: CP932, CP936, CP949, CP950, GB2312, GBK, GB18030, Big5, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP. | ||||
See [all supported encodings on wiki](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/wiki/Supported-Encodings). | ||||
Most singlebyte encodings are generated automatically from [node-iconv](https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-iconv). Thank you Ben Noordhuis and libiconv authors! | ||||
Multibyte encodings are generated from [Unicode.org mappings](http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/) and [WHATWG Encoding Standard mappings](http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/). Thank you, respective authors! | ||||
## Encoding/decoding speed | ||||
Comparison with node-iconv module (1000x256kb, on MacBook Pro, Core i5/2.6 GHz, Node v0.12.0). | ||||
Note: your results may vary, so please always check on your hardware. | ||||
operation iconv@2.1.4 iconv-lite@0.4.7 | ||||
---------------------------------------------------------- | ||||
encode('win1251') ~96 Mb/s ~320 Mb/s | ||||
decode('win1251') ~95 Mb/s ~246 Mb/s | ||||
## BOM handling | ||||
* Decoding: BOM is stripped by default, unless overridden by passing `stripBOM: false` in options | ||||
(f.ex. `iconv.decode(buf, enc, {stripBOM: false})`). | ||||
A callback might also be given as a `stripBOM` parameter - it'll be called if BOM character was actually found. | ||||
* If you want to detect UTF-8 BOM when decoding other encodings, use [node-autodetect-decoder-stream](https://github.com/danielgindi/node-autodetect-decoder-stream) module. | ||||
* Encoding: No BOM added, unless overridden by `addBOM: true` option. | ||||
## UTF-16 Encodings | ||||
This library supports UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE and UTF-16 encodings. First two are straightforward, but UTF-16 is trying to be | ||||
smart about endianness in the following ways: | ||||
* Decoding: uses BOM and 'spaces heuristic' to determine input endianness. Default is UTF-16LE, but can be | ||||
overridden with `defaultEncoding: 'utf-16be'` option. Strips BOM unless `stripBOM: false`. | ||||
* Encoding: uses UTF-16LE and writes BOM by default. Use `addBOM: false` to override. | ||||
## UTF-32 Encodings | ||||
This library supports UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE and UTF-32 encodings. Like the UTF-16 encoding above, UTF-32 defaults to UTF-32LE, but uses BOM and 'spaces heuristics' to determine input endianness. | ||||
* The default of UTF-32LE can be overridden with the `defaultEncoding: 'utf-32be'` option. Strips BOM unless `stripBOM: false`. | ||||
* Encoding: uses UTF-32LE and writes BOM by default. Use `addBOM: false` to override. (`defaultEncoding: 'utf-32be'` can also be used here to change encoding.) | ||||
## Other notes | ||||
When decoding, be sure to supply a Buffer to decode() method, otherwise [bad things usually happen](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/wiki/Use-Buffers-when-decoding). | ||||
Untranslatable characters are set to � or ?. No transliteration is currently supported. | ||||
Node versions 0.10.31 and 0.11.13 are buggy, don't use them (see #65, #77). | ||||
## Testing | ||||
```bash | ||||
$ git clone git@github.com:ashtuchkin/iconv-lite.git | ||||
$ cd iconv-lite | ||||
$ npm install | ||||
$ npm test | ||||
$ # To view performance: | ||||
$ node test/performance.js | ||||
$ # To view test coverage: | ||||
$ npm run coverage | ||||
$ open coverage/lcov-report/index.html | ||||
``` | ||||