Handling codepage

README.md

Normalizing Codepage in Node.js

Only tested in CP-949.

Note

• This will only work on the codepages below.
  • Windows codepages: 874, 1250-1258
  • IBM codepages: 437, 737, 775, 808, 850, 852, 855-858, 860-866, 869, 922, 1046, 1124, 1125, 1129, 1133, 1161-116
  • Multi-byte: 932, 936, 949, 950

index.ts

import Iconv from 'iconv-lite'
import child_process from 'child_process'

child_process.exec('chcp.com', { encoding: 'buffer' }, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
  if(err) throw err;
  const [ codepage ] = stdout.toString().match(/\d+/)
  const buf = Iconv.decode(Buffer.from(stdout), 'cp'+codepage)
  console.log(buf)
})