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Reputation: 405

electron ipc renderer to main process - euro sign (€) becomes 'Ôé¼'

I have some encoding troubles with a string I am sending from the ipcRenderer to ipcMain within the electron framework.

Renderer process:

let test: String = "abc€123";
console.log(test); // prints "abc€123"
electron.ipcRenderer.send('testMessage', test);

Main process:

ipcMain.on('testMessage', (event, arg) => {
    console.log(arg); // prints "abcÔé¼123"
});

Why is the main process printing the string as "abcÔé¼123"? The value gets saved into a database and gets saved as garbage and not the actuall € sign.

Edit: console.log("€") in the main process also shows up 'Ôé¼' in the console

Upvotes: 0

Views: 667

Answers (1)

user3740359
user3740359

Reputation: 405

The problem actually was not the encoding. Turned out to be the datatype i used to save it into sql db.

I use the node-mssql and had to change the datatype to NVarChar:

request.input('test', db.sql.NVarChar, "€");

Upvotes: 0

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