support of dbf files encoded in utf-8

index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+var TextDecoder = require('text-encoding').TextDecoder;
+
 function dbfHeader(buffer) {
   var data = new DataView(buffer);
   var out = {};
@@ -28,9 +30,9 @@ function dbfRowHeader(buffer, headerLen) {
   return out;
 }
 
-function rowFuncs(buffer, offset, len, type) {
+function rowFuncs(buffer, offset, len, type, textDecoder) {
   var data = (new Uint8Array(buffer, offset, len));
-  var textData = String.fromCharCode.apply(this, data).replace(/\0|\s+$/g, '');
+  var textData = textDecoder.decode(data).replace(/\0|\s+$/g, '');
   switch (type) {
   case 'N':
   case 'F':
@@ -45,15 +47,15 @@ function rowFuncs(buffer, offset, len, type) {
   }
 }
 
-function parseRow(buffer, offset, rowHeaders) {
+function parseRow(buffer, offset, rowHeaders, textDecoder) {
   var out = {};
   var i = 0;
   var len = rowHeaders.length;
   var field;
   var header;
   while (i < len) {
     header = rowHeaders[i];
-    field = rowFuncs(buffer, offset, header.len, header.dataType);
+    field = rowFuncs(buffer, offset, header.len, header.dataType, textDecoder);
     offset += header.len;
     if (typeof field !== 'undefined') {
       out[header.name] = field;
@@ -62,16 +64,19 @@ function parseRow(buffer, offset, rowHeaders) {
   }
   return out;
 }
-module.exports = function(buffer) {
+module.exports = function(buffer, encoding = 'utf-8') {
   var header = dbfHeader(buffer);
   var rowHeaders = dbfRowHeader(buffer, header.headerLen - 1);
 
   var offset = ((rowHeaders.length + 1) << 5) + 2;
   var recLen = header.recLen;
   var records = header.records;
   var out = [];
+
+  var textDecoder = new TextDecoder(encoding);
+
   while (records) {
-    out.push(parseRow(buffer, offset, rowHeaders));
+    out.push(parseRow(buffer, offset, rowHeaders, textDecoder));
     offset += recLen;
     records--;
   }

package.json

@@ -23,5 +23,8 @@
     "chai": "^3.3.0",
     "jshint": "^2.8.0",
     "mocha": "^2.3.3"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "text-encoding": "^0.6.4"
   }
 }