HTML convert

[bnoordhuis]

HTML convert

[bnoordhuis]

I don't understand what you mean. node-iconv converts text from one character set to another, it doesn't do anything with HTML.

[tluyben]

If you read Google ES with thiss;

    request({ uri:'http://www.google.es' }, function (error, response, body) {
      if (error && response.statusCode !== 200) {
        console.log('Error when contacting google.com')
      }

it is ISO-8859-1 encoding as you can see in the HTML which is returned by Google.

When I output the response straight away with

sys.puts(body);

It outputs normal HTML but the wrong characters, so I want to convert one char set into another, so I run;

iconv = new Iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8');
body = iconv.convert(body);

when I then print

sys.puts(body)

All characters are encoded, for instance;

          <textarea id="csi" style="display: none;"></textarea><div       id="mngb"><div id="gb"><script>window.gbar&&gbar.eli&&gbar.eli()<

etc....

And the characters are not correct either after the convert.

Edit: I'll try to make some simple to reproduce it...

[tluyben]

    request({ uri:'http://www.google.es' }, function (error, response, body) {
      if (error && response.statusCode !== 200) {
        console.log('Error when contacting google.com')
      }
              iconv = new Iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8'); 
              body = iconv.convert(body);

I'll try to reproduce the html encoded characters as well, but the above does not fix the characters anyway, even though I think it's ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8; it still contains stuff like;

              Google.es tambi�n en

Any idea what could be wrong?

Edit: php -r 'echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", file_get_contents("http://www.google.es"));'

Does what is expected.

[tluyben]

Ok, after a lot of searching and trying, I found that I have to use

    _res = new Buffer(_res, 'binary');
    var iconv = new Iconv(enc, 'UTF-8');
    _res = iconv.convert(_res).toString('utf8');

That was incredibly unclear, but ok, it works ;)

[bnoordhuis]

Glad you got it solved.