grunt-transcode

A file encoding converter that really works!

Supporting many encodings, including multi-byte such as Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, GB2312, GBK, GB18030, KS_C_5601, Big5, Big5-HKSCS, etc.

A full list of supported encodings can be referred from iconv-lite's wiki:
https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/wiki/Supported-Encodings

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-transcode --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-transcode');

The "transcode" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named transcode to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  transcode: {
    options: {
      fromEncoding: 'sjis', // Source file encoding
      toEncoding: 'utf8' // Target file encoding
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

options.fromEncoding

Type: String Default value: 'utf8'

A string value that suggests the source file encoding.

options.toEncoding

Type: String Default value: 'utf8'

A string value that suggests the target file encoding.

Usage Examples

Simple file list

In this example, a GBK file is converted to UTF-8 with an assgined filename.

grunt.initConfig({
  transcode: {
    sjis: {
      options: {
        fromEncoding: 'gbk',
        toEncoding: 'utf8'
      },
      files: {
        'js/templates.utf8.js': ['js/templates.gbk.js']
      }
    }
  }
})

Expanded file list

In this example, JavaScript files with .utf8 suffix are converted to Shift-JIS with .sjis suffix.

grunt.initConfig({
  transcode: {
    js: {
      options: {
        fromEncoding: 'utf8',
        toEncoding: 'sjis'
      },
      files: [{
        expand: true,
        cwd: 'js/',
        src: '**/*.utf8.js',
        dest: 'js/',
        ext: '.sjis.js'
      }]
    }
  }
})

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

(Nothing yet)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Joshua Zhang. Licensed under the MIT license.