From 9a76293f20fc6be707b5f76f0983d5e035b1612e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos Galindo <9221197+kauron@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 00:15:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Consider alternative encodings for text files

---
 package.json              |  1 +
 server/utils/fileUtils.js | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a0b340244..c65ff537b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     "express-session": "^1.17.3",
     "graceful-fs": "^4.2.10",
     "htmlparser2": "^8.0.1",
+    "jschardet": "^3.1.4",
     "lru-cache": "^10.0.3",
     "node-unrar-js": "^2.0.2",
     "nodemailer": "^6.9.13",
diff --git a/server/utils/fileUtils.js b/server/utils/fileUtils.js
index 9a349bd54..d4d3ddf7f 100644
--- a/server/utils/fileUtils.js
+++ b/server/utils/fileUtils.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 const axios = require('axios')
 const Path = require('path')
 const ssrfFilter = require('ssrf-req-filter')
+const iconvlite = require('iconv-lite')
+const jschardet = require('jschardet')
 const exec = require('child_process').exec
 const fs = require('../libs/fsExtra')
 const rra = require('../libs/recursiveReaddirAsync')
@@ -122,7 +124,15 @@ module.exports.getIno = getIno
  */
 async function readTextFile(path) {
   try {
-    var data = await fs.readFile(path)
+    let data = await fs.readFile(path)
+    const det_enc = jschardet.detect(data)
+    if (det_enc)
+      try {
+        return iconvlite.decode(data, det_enc.encoding)
+      } catch (error) {
+        Logger.info(`[FileUtils] ReadTextFile detected encoding ${det_enc.encoding} for file ${path} failed to decode, defaulting to UTF-8. Internal error in iconv-lite: ${error}`)
+      }
+    // defaults to utf-8
     return String(data)
   } catch (error) {
     Logger.error(`[FileUtils] ReadTextFile error ${error}`)