From 03ee1c1660d2aeab5fc7a51a7921c9f411138ea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Madsen <amwebdk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:46:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add Buffer.isEncoding method

---
 index.js            | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 test/is-encoding.js |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/is-encoding.js

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index ad42d41..aa3e524 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -417,6 +417,26 @@ Buffer.concat = function (list, totalLength) {
   return buffer;
 };
 
+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;
+  }
+};
+
 // helpers
 
 function coerce(length) {
diff --git a/test/is-encoding.js b/test/is-encoding.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cf04b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/is-encoding.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
+var B = require('../index.js').Buffer;
+var test = require('tape');
+
+test('Buffer.isEncoding', function (t) {
+  t.equal(B.isEncoding('HEX'), true);
+  t.equal(B.isEncoding('hex'), true);
+  t.equal(B.isEncoding('bad'), false);
+});
-- 
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