Node.js Generated Csv File Is Displaying £ For A Uk Pound Sign (£)

I'm using this json2scv package parsing my data (sample json data is described in below code) I am trying to generate a CSV file in my nodejs application using the code below: If I

Solution 1:

I have got the solution from this answer and it's question thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27975629/5228251

UTF-8 Example:

fs.writeFile(someFilename, '\ufeff' + html, { encoding: 'utf8' }, function(err) {
   /* The actual byte order mark written to the file is EF BB BF */
}

UTF-16 Little Endian Example:

fs.writeFile(someFilename, '\ufeff' + html, { encoding: 'utf16le' }, function(err) {
   /* The actual byte order mark written to the file is FF FE */
}

After go through above answer and it's thread then I have modified my code like this:

• Changed delimeter option to "\t" instead of ","
• Prepended "\ufeff" to the csv string
• Changed encoding to use "utf16le" instead of "utf8"

Here's my updated code:

var json2csv = require('json2csv');
var fs = require('fs');
var fields = ['car', 'price', 'color'];
var myCars = [
  {
    "car": "Audi",
    "price": "£40000",
    "color": "blue"
  }, {
    "car": "BMW",
    "price": "£35000",
    "color": "black"
  }, {
    "car": "Porsche",
    "price": "£60000",
    "color": "green"
  }
];
var csvStr = json2csv({ data: myCars, fields: fields, del: '\t' });

fs.writeFile('file.csv', '\ufeff' + csvStr, { encoding: 'utf16le' },function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('file saved');
});

Hope this helps others.