Big5 to utf-8 encoding while scraping website with Node-request

Question

I am new to Node.js, and I am trying to use the request model to scrap a website, I am having problem with the encoding: the target website is using big5 as encoding, and I wish

Answer 1

Might I suggest my codepage library:

var request = require('request'), codepage = require('codepage')
request({ url: 'http://amis.afa.gov.tw/v-asp/v101r.asp',encoding:null}, function(err,     response, body) {
  if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {
    var str = codepage.utils.decode(950, new Buffer(body));
    console.log(str);
  }
});

yields

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