What encodings does Buffer.toString () support?

Question

I am writing an application in node.js and see that I can do such things:

var buf = new Buffer("Hello World!") console.log(buf.toString("hex")) console.log(buf.toString("utf8")) 

And I know about ascii as an encoding type (it will take ASCII code like 112 and turn it into p ), but what other types of encoding can I do?

Answer 1

The official node.js documentation for Buffer is the best place to check for something like this. As already noted, Buffer currently supports these encodings: ascii , utf8 , utf16le / ucs2 , base64 , binary and hex .

Answer 2

As always, I spent some time on Google, but did not find anything until I posted a question:

http://www.w3resource.com/node.js/nodejs-buffer.php has an answer. You can use the following types in .toString() in the buffer:

• ascii
• utf8
• utf16le
• ucs2 (alias utf16le )
• base64
• binary
• hex

Answer 3

It supports ascii , utf-8 , ucs2, base64, binary