iconv-lite-loader

This is a webpack loader for opening files in arbitrary encodings.

ChangeLog

v1.0.0 - Initial release

Basic Usage

npm install iconv-lite-loader

The loader itself request the input as raw data, decodes it and exports the resulting string. The iconv-lite library is used for that, because it doesn't need native bindings and claims to be faster than iconv. It could be used with the "complete" iconv library with a few changes. If you need it, please open a issue.

//in webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
    module: {
        loaders: [
            { test: /\.txt(\?.*)?$/, loader: "inconv-lite?inputEncoding=iso-8859-1"}
        ]
    }
};

This will set the default encoding of txt files to ISO-8859-1. You can override this (per request) by using a parameter:

text = require("chinese.txt?inputEncoding=gb2312")

Requirements

The only real dependency is the iconv-lite library. This should hopefully build easily, even on windows. If not, please let me hear about it.