can i ask what you are doing with the res, are you using nextjs to render the content as string, using route handler and returning html?

and make sure your head has a charset such as:

<meta charset="utf-8" />

well the context of this is basically I have a form and I ask for an id in the form which corresponds to a given person in a college for instance 2345 might be John Smith but at that point I don't know the name of the person so I kinda just fetch collegexyz/id?{thisId}.com and then I use cheerio to tap into the html and get the title element which has the name after that I just store the name in my db along with the rest of the info I got from the form but it turns out that the name I get has � in all chars with accents. I looked at the source code for the college site and it has <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-15"> and I have no idea what to do tbh.

          
          const htmlBody = await res.text();
        
          
  
          // Load the HTML content into cheerio
          const $ = cheerio.load(htmlBody);
          
          // Use cheerio selectors to find and extract the name
          const nameElement = $('title');
          
         
          const name = nameElement.text().trim();

// actually never mind I found an old answer to this on stackoverflow and changed it a bit ty

I wanna know the solution you've found 👀

ahh you needed to decode it first