How to get the string length in bytes in nodejs?

Question

How to get the string length in bytes in nodejs? If I have a string, like this: äáöü then str.length will return with 4. But how to get that, how many bytes form th

Answer 1

If you want to specific encoded, here is iconv example

  var iconv = require('iconv-lite');
  var buf =iconv.encode('äáöü', 'utf8');
  console.log(buf.length);
  // output: 8