I am having troubles loading HTTP request when the page is in windows-1250 encoding. The http request component parses the input into UTF-8 incorrectly and that seems to be irreversible. Any output after that is basically gibberish instead of accented characters. I am not sure how to prevent it from…

It works! Just use the binary output of the http-request node and pass the output to the converter node ( node-red-contrib-iconv (node) - Node-RED ) with encoding set to windows-1250 (source webpage encoding) and it will get displayed correctly. [{"id":"36193ce86ca865ca","type":"debug","z":"b65eba7d5…

Http request with windows-1250 encoding problem

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Steve-Mcl 17 April 2022 19:52 2

Have you tried setting headers to specify the encoding? Have you tried setting the HTTP request to return a buffer then feed it I to an iconv node? Did you search the forum - for example: Read windows-1250 encoded data - #4 by TotallyInformation

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Http request with windows-1250 encoding problem

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