Recipe 07: Special characters and encoding

Current version: 3.1.0

Goal

Handle UTF-8 BOM, non-UTF8 input, and special characters safely.

Example

const { autoDetectAndConvert, csvToJson } = require('jtcsv');

const rawBuffer = require('fs').readFileSync('input.csv');
const { text: utf8Csv } = autoDetectAndConvert(rawBuffer);

const rows = csvToJson(utf8Csv, { delimiter: ',' });
console.log(rows);

Notes

• autoDetectAndConvert normalizes encodings to UTF-8.
• JTCSV strips BOM during parsing for most workflows.

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