Merge pull request #8 from irandom/set-encoding

Add encoding as an argument to constructor

Author: Matthew Knight

Cakefile

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 fs = require 'fs'
 
 {print} = require 'sys'
-{spawn} = require 'child_process'
+{exec} = require 'child_process'
 
 build = (callback) ->
-  coffee = spawn 'coffee', ['-c', '-o', 'lib', 'src']
+  coffee = exec 'coffee -c -o lib src'
   coffee.stderr.on 'data', (data) ->
     process.stderr.write data.toString()
   coffee.stdout.on 'data', (data) ->

lib/header.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-dbf",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "An efficient dBase DBF file parser written in pure JavaScript",
   "main": "./lib/parser.js",
   "repository": {
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "coffee-script": ">=1.3.3"
   },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "iconv-lite": ">=0.2.11"
+  },
   "scripts": {
     "prepublish": "cake build"
   }
-}
+}

lib/parser.js

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 {EventEmitter} = require 'events'
 Header = require './header'
 fs = require 'fs'
+iconv = require 'iconv-lite'
 
 class Parser extends EventEmitter
 
-    constructor: (@filename) ->
+    constructor: (@filename, @encoding = 'utf-8') ->
 
     parse: =>
         @emit 'start', @
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ class Parser extends EventEmitter
         return record
 
     parseField: (field, buffer) =>
-        value = (buffer.toString 'utf-8').replace /^\x20+|\x20+$/g, ''
+        value = (iconv.decode buffer, @encoding).trim()
 
         if field.type is 'N' then value = parseInt value, 10