How to guess http encoding with node.js?

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When I'm getting this page http://booking.airasia.com/css/AKBase/Cultures/en-GB/far-min.css with node's http, the toString method gives me corrupt stuff. Apparently that page is in UTF-16, but there is no mention of that fact in headers. Firefox however has no problems guessing the encoding, is this something node can do?

(I know I can convert this specific page, since I know its encoding now, but I want to guess the encoding)

Try using the request module. It may have some logic in it to guess encoding. — Jondlm
– Jondlm, Commented Feb 5, 2014 at 18:40

greut · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-13 13:41:31Z

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An ex-colleague of mine ported python chardet to javascript: https://github.com/aadsm/jschardet

answered Jan 13, 2012 at 13:41

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