Supported Encodings

• Node.js Native encodings: utf8, cesu8, ucs2 / utf16le, ascii, binary, base64, hex
• Unicode: UTF7, UTF7-IMAP, UTF-16BE, UTF-16 (with BOM), UCS-4/UTF-32 (with BOM), UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE
• Single-byte:
  • Windows codepages: 874, 1250-1258 (aliases: cpXXX, winXXX, windowsXXX)
  • ISO codepages: ISO-8859-1 - ISO-8859-16
  • IBM codepages: 437, 720, 737, 775, 808, 850, 852, 855-858, 860-866, 869, 922, 1046, 1124, 1125, 1129, 1133, 1161-1163 (aliases cpXXX, ibmXXX)
  • Mac codepages: maccroatian, maccyrillic, macgreek, maciceland, macroman, macromania, macthai, macturkish, macukraine, maccenteuro, macintosh
  • KOI8 codepages: koi8-r, koi8-u, koi8-ru, koi8-t
  • Miscellaneous: armscii8, rk1048, tcvn, georgianacademy, georgianps, pt154, viscii, iso646cn, iso646jp, hproman8, tis620
• Multi-byte:
  • Japanese: Shift_JIS, Windows-31j, Windows932, EUC-JP
  • Chinese: GB2312, GBK, GB18030, Windows936, EUC-CN
  • Korean: KS_C_5601, Windows949, EUC-KR
  • Taiwan/Hong Kong: Big5, Big5-HKSCS, Windows950