Add streaming mode to character set conversion

[thiloplanz]

It would be nice to be able to use iconv in a streaming fashion. This would do away with the need to collect all input data in a (potentially big) buffer and retrieve the output data in another buffer.

With multi-byte character sets, this is probably no easy task, though, as the partial input could stop in the middle of a sequence.

[aklt]

+1

[aklt]

Have you encountered problems in implementing this?

[bnoordhuis]

Not exactly problems but there are a lot of corner cases that need to be taken into account. I've been working on and off on a prototype, I'll try to finish it up this week.

[aklt]

Uh, that sounds nice!

I am currently looking into how this and I think that it would make
sense to make node-iconv be a stream, or at least have the same interface as streams.

Curious what you come up with :-)

[papandreou]

Eagerly awaiting this... :)

[assistunion]

It would be nice! awaiting this feature :]

[Artazor]

+1

[magnumripper]

I too would appreciate this a lot. I exercised my swap file for a good while before I realised what was the problem.

[lanzz]

+1

[superfeedr]

That'd be indeed very very good! +1

[noahadams]

+1

[bnoordhuis]

Fixed in 1ae031e.