How can I read HTTP Response in Windows 1251 encoding?

[rmarinchev]

Describe the problem/error/question

When making HTTP Request to a service, that returns the response in Windows-1251 encoding, n8n is unable to read it. The characters show as questionmarks �

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

[
  {
    "data": "������ ���"
  }
]

And the expected output is:

[
  {
    "data": "Привет мир"
  }
]

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.17.1
• Database (default: SQLite): Postgresql
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): docker
• Operating system: Debian 11

[EmeraldHerald]

Hi @rmarinchev Welcome to the community

This took both of us a bit of playing around with, but @Jon managed to find a workaround in reading the response as a binary file:

[rmarinchev]

It worked, thank you!