Encoding issue with Axios

Question

I am fetching a web page with axios, but the content-type of the response is ISO-8859-1, and the result given by axios seems like it parses it as UTF-8 and the result has corrupt characters.

I tried to convert the result encoding but nothing works, and I think it does not because of this

For example in the got library I can set encoding to null and overcome the problem, but I would like to ask you what can I do with axios to disable the auto-encoding or change it?

Answer 1

My approach was this:

1. Make the request with responseType and responseEncoding set as below

const response = await axios.request({
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://www.example.com',
  responseType: 'arraybuffer',
  responseEncoding: 'binary'
});

2. Decode reponse.data to the desired format

let html = iso88592.decode(response.data.toString('binary'));

Note: In my case, I needed to decode it using this package.