Javascript, How Could We Read A Local Text File With Accent Letters Into It?

I have one doubt because I need to read a local file and I have been studying some threads, and I have seen various ways to handle it, in most of the cases there is an input file.

Solution 1:

It sounds like the file is encoded with ISO-8859-1 (or possibly the very-similar Windows-1252).

There's no BOM or equivalent for those encodings.

The only solutions I can see are:

1. Use a (local) server and have it return the HTTP Content-Type header with the encoding identified as a charset, e.g. Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=ISO-8859-1

2. Use UTF-8 instead (e.g., open the file in an editor as ISO-8859-1, then save it as UTF-8 instead), as that's the default encoding for XHR response bodies.

Solution 2:

1. Put your text in an .html file with the corresponding content type, for example:

   <metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset="UTF-8">

   enclose the text between two tags ("####" in my example) (or put in a div)

2. Read the html page, extract the content and select the text:

   window.open(url); //..var content = newWindow.document.body.innerHTML;
    var strSep="####";
    var x = content.indexOf(strSep);
    x=x+strSep.length;    
    var y = content.lastIndexOf(strSep); 
    var points=content.slice(x, y);