[buffer] transcode() to utf16le is broken
- Version: v7.2.0
- Platform: Linux
- Subsystem: buffer
Examples of brokenness:
// note: this works properly if `fromEnc` is 'utf8' buffer.transcode(Buffer.from('hi', 'ascii'), 'ascii', 'utf16le') // expect: <Buffer 68 00 69 00> // get: <Buffer 68 00 69 00 00 00 00 00 60 db 18 c6 fe 7f 00 00> buffer.transcode(Buffer.from('hi', 'latin1'), 'latin1', 'utf16le') // expect: <Buffer 68 00 69 00> // get: <Buffer 68 00 69 00 00 00 00 00 60 db 18 c6 fe 7f 00 00> buffer.transcode(Buffer.from('\u00e4', 'latin1'), 'latin1', 'utf16le') // expect: <Buffer e4 00> // get: <Buffer e4 00 00 00 fe 7f 00 00>
Not sure when I'll have time to look into this.
/cc @jasnell