Buffer.isEncoding = function(encoding) { switch ((encoding + '').toLowerCase()) { case 'hex': case 'utf8': case 'utf-8': case 'ascii': case 'binary': case 'base64': case 'ucs2': case 'ucs-2': case 'utf16le': case 'utf-16le': case 'raw': return true; default: return false; } };