Fix encoding issue

src/controllers/UserController.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { RequestHandler } from "../entities/RequestHandler";
 import { UserHelper } from "../helpers/UserHelper";
 import { User, UserPageStatus } from "../entities/User";
 import { AccountImage, AccountImageVisibilityLevel } from "../entities/AccountImage";
+import { fixEncoding } from "../utils/StringUtils";
 
 /**
  * User information controller
@@ -50,8 +51,8 @@ export class UserController {
 	private static UserToAPI(user : User, handler: RequestHandler) : Object {
 		return {
 			"userID": user.id,
-			"firstName": user.firstName,
-			"lastName": user.lastName,
+			"firstName": fixEncoding(user.firstName),
+			"lastName": fixEncoding(user.lastName),
 			"publicPage": user.pageStatus == UserPageStatus.PUBLIC,
 			"openPage": user.pageStatus == UserPageStatus.OPEN,
 			"virtualDirectory": user.virtualDirectory,

src/utils/StringUtils.ts

@@ -12,4 +12,13 @@
  */
 export function checkMail(emailAddress: string): boolean {
 	return (emailAddress.match(/^[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-.]{1,}[.][a-zA-Z]{2,8}$/) === null ? false : true);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fix text encoding
+ * 
+ * @param input Input string
+ */
+export function fixEncoding(input : string) : string {
+	return Buffer.from(input, "latin1").toString("utf-8");
 }