Consistent error when running shp2json from the CLI

[nickrttn]

Everytime I run shp2json from the command line, I get the error

error: Decoder not present. Did you forget to include encoding-indexes.js first?

I've used shp2json with success before and this error only started occurring after a full reinstall of OSX. It happens on node 6.9.3 as well as 7.3 and 7.4.

Please let me know if there's any other information useful for debugging this.

[mbostock]

Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce this error, so I don’t know how to investigate. I have filed inexorabletash/text-encoding#67 as this appears to be an issue with the text-encoding polyfill. I have also reverted shapefile to an earlier version of text-encoding (0.6.1) that hopefully does not exhibit this issue, as this appears to be a bug in a more recent release of text-encoding.

Questions for you:

1. Did you install shp2json locally (npm install shapefile) or globally (npm install -g shapefile)?

2. If you installed it locally, what is the output of npm ls? If globally, npm ls -g?

3. How are you invoking shp2json? Are you specifying the --encoding argument? Are you passing a shapefile as the first argument, or are you piping a shapefile via stdin?

4. Do you have anything unusual in your Node setup, such as an alias that would pass default arguments to Node (say --use-strict)?

If you can reply over on inexorabletash/text-encoding#67 that would be helpful for debugging, or you can reply here and I will relay the information.

[nickrttn]

I've replied over at inexorabletash/text-encoding#67. Just wanted to mention that downgrading text-encoding seems to have fixed the problem so it's likely a regression on their end.