Example code for iconv-lite

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No repository file or test is named. Start with the iconv-lite package link and the RSS URL in the issue, then prepare a simple example showing conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8; done means the example is clear and usable for the stated River5 use case.

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Description

I'm in need of some simple example code for iconv-lite.

The functionality

I have a string which contains the text from requesting this file.

https://www.presseportal.de/rss/dienststelle_110972.rss2

I want to use iconv-lite to convert it from its charset -- ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.

Why?

I'm seeing if I can swap out iconv for iconv-lite, to avoid problems people are having installing River5 because it requires a package that must be compiled from C. iconv-lite is all Javascript.

I wish

It were totally API compatible with iconv. That would be a thrill to have something glide into place and "just work." Alas that is not the way of Node. :-(

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