added support for other encodings, closes issue #6

README.md

@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ In addition to the fields, the object contains two special keys:
 * @sequenceNumber `Number` indicates the order in which it was extracted
 * @deleted `Boolean` whether this record has been deleted or not
 
+Each field is parsed using the `utf-8` encoding. If you want a different encoding, you should initialize the Parser with that encoding:
+
+    new Parser('/path/to/my/dbase/file.dbf', 'win1252');
+
 This object may look like:
 
     {

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-dbf",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "An efficient dBase DBF file parser written in pure JavaScript",
   "main": "./lib/parser.js",
   "repository": {
@@ -17,5 +17,8 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "prepublish": "cake build"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "iconv-lite": "~0.2.11"
   }
-}
+}

src/parser.coffee

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 {EventEmitter} = require 'events'
 Header = require './header'
 fs = require 'fs'
+iconv = require 'iconv-lite'
+
 
 class Parser extends EventEmitter
 
-    constructor: (@filename) ->
+    constructor: (@filename, @encoding) ->
 
     parse: =>
         @emit 'start', @
@@ -41,7 +43,10 @@ class Parser extends EventEmitter
         return record
 
     parseField: (field, buffer) =>
-        value = (buffer.toString 'utf-8').replace /^\x20+|\x20+$/g, ''
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+        encoding = @encoding if @encoding
+
+        value = iconv.decode(buffer, encoding).replace /^\x20+|\x20+$/g, ''
 
         if field.type is 'N' then value = parseInt value, 10