diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 23aa972..8c65423 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -149,8 +149,9 @@ characters and start with an alphabet. `options` is an object which can have
 the following keys:
 
 - `encoding` - (Optional, defaults to `utf8`) Specify which encoding to use.
-  Supported encodings include `"hex"` and all encodings supported by
-  [`TextDecoder`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder/encoding).
+  Supported encodings are `"utf8"` (`"utf-8"`), `"ascii"`, `"latin1"`
+  (`"binary"`), `"hex"`, `"base64"` and `"base64url"`, with the same semantics
+  as Node.js `Buffer#toString()`.
 - `length ` - (Optional) Length of the string. Can be a number, string or a
   function. Use number for statically sized arrays, string to reference
   another variable and function to do some calculation.
diff --git a/lib/binary_parser.ts b/lib/binary_parser.ts
index 25d54e9..e236880 100644
--- a/lib/binary_parser.ts
+++ b/lib/binary_parser.ts
@@ -274,6 +274,26 @@ const PRIMITIVE_LITTLE_ENDIANS: { [key in PrimitiveTypes]: boolean } = {
   doublebe: false,
 };
 
+// These helpers must be self-contained (no outer references) since they may
+// be inlined via toString().
+function bytesToLatin1(bytes: Uint8Array): string {
+  let s = "";
+  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += 8192) {
+    s += String.fromCharCode.apply(null, bytes.subarray(i, i + 8192) as any);
+  }
+  return s;
+}
+
+// Like Node.js, unset the high bit; the result is pure ASCII, so UTF-8 decoding
+// is exact and much faster than String.fromCharCode.
+function bytesToAscii(bytes: Uint8Array): string {
+  const masked = new Uint8Array(bytes.length);
+  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
+    masked[i] = bytes[i] & 0x7f;
+  }
+  return new TextDecoder().decode(masked);
+}
+
 export class Parser {
   varName = "";
   type: Types = "";
@@ -1216,8 +1236,25 @@ export class Parser {
     const name = ctx.generateVariable(this.varName);
     const start = ctx.generateTmpVariable();
     const encoding = this.options.encoding!;
-    const isHex = encoding.toLowerCase() === "hex";
-    const toHex = 'b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, "0")';
+    const latin1 = (bytes: string) =>
+      `${ctx.addImport(bytesToLatin1)}(${bytes})`;
+    const decode = (bytes: string) => {
+      switch (encoding.toLowerCase()) {
+        case "hex":
+          return `Array.from(${bytes}, b => b.toString(16).padStart(2, "0")).join('')`;
+        case "latin1":
+        case "binary":
+          return latin1(bytes);
+        case "ascii":
+          return `${ctx.addImport(bytesToAscii)}(${bytes})`;
+        case "base64":
+          return `btoa(${latin1(bytes)})`;
+        case "base64url":
+          return `btoa(${latin1(bytes)}).replace(/\\+/g, '-').replace(/\\//g, '_').replace(/=+$/, '')`;
+        default:
+          return `new TextDecoder('${encoding}').decode(${bytes})`;
+      }
+    };
 
     if (this.options.length != null && this.options.zeroTerminated) {
       const len = ctx.generateTmpVariable();
@@ -1226,36 +1263,24 @@ export class Parser {
       ctx.pushCode(
         `while(offset - ${start} < ${len} && dataView.getUint8(offset) !== 0) offset++;`,
       );
-      ctx.pushCode(
-        isHex
-          ? `${name} = Array.from(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset), ${toHex}).join('');`
-          : `${name} = new TextDecoder('${encoding}').decode(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset));`,
-      );
+      ctx.pushCode(`${name} = ${decode(`buffer.subarray(${start}, offset)`)};`);
       ctx.pushCode(`if (offset - ${start} < ${len}) offset++;`);
     } else if (this.options.length != null) {
       const len = ctx.generateOption(this.options.length);
       ctx.pushCode(
-        isHex
-          ? `${name} = Array.from(buffer.subarray(offset, offset + ${len}), ${toHex}).join('');`
-          : `${name} = new TextDecoder('${encoding}').decode(buffer.subarray(offset, offset + ${len}));`,
+        `${name} = ${decode(`buffer.subarray(offset, offset + ${len})`)};`,
       );
       ctx.pushCode(`offset += ${len};`);
     } else if (this.options.zeroTerminated) {
       ctx.pushCode(`var ${start} = offset;`);
       ctx.pushCode("while(dataView.getUint8(offset++) !== 0);");
       ctx.pushCode(
-        isHex
-          ? `${name} = Array.from(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset - 1), ${toHex}).join('');`
-          : `${name} = new TextDecoder('${encoding}').decode(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset - 1));`,
+        `${name} = ${decode(`buffer.subarray(${start}, offset - 1)`)};`,
       );
     } else if (this.options.greedy) {
       ctx.pushCode(`var ${start} = offset;`);
       ctx.pushCode("offset = buffer.length;");
-      ctx.pushCode(
-        isHex
-          ? `${name} = Array.from(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset), ${toHex}).join('');`
-          : `${name} = new TextDecoder('${encoding}').decode(buffer.subarray(${start}, offset));`,
-      );
+      ctx.pushCode(`${name} = ${decode(`buffer.subarray(${start}, offset)`)};`);
     }
     if (this.options.stripNull) {
       ctx.pushCode(`${name} = ${name}.replace(/\\x00+$/g, '')`);
diff --git a/test/primitive_parser.ts b/test/primitive_parser.ts
index 58f303e..cf653ae 100644
--- a/test/primitive_parser.ts
+++ b/test/primitive_parser.ts
@@ -350,6 +350,42 @@ function primitiveParserTests(
 
         expect(parser.parse(buffer).msg).toStrictEqual(text);
       });
+      it("should parse latin1, ascii and base64 encoded strings", () => {
+        const buffer = hexToBuf("4180fffbef");
+        const expected = {
+          latin1: "A\x80\xff\xfb\xef",
+          binary: "A\x80\xff\xfb\xef",
+          ascii: "A\x00\x7f\x7b\x6f",
+          base64: "QYD/++8=",
+          base64url: "QYD_--8",
+        };
+        for (const [encoding, msg] of Object.entries(expected)) {
+          const parser = Parser.start().string("msg", {
+            length: buffer.length,
+            encoding,
+          });
+          expect(parser.parse(buffer).msg).toStrictEqual(msg);
+        }
+      });
+      it("should parse latin1, ascii and base64 strings larger than a chunk", () => {
+        const bytes = Uint8Array.from({ length: 20000 }, (_, i) => i * 7);
+        const buffer = factory(bytes);
+        // Naive per-byte reference (no Buffer, so it also runs in browsers)
+        let latin1 = "";
+        let ascii = "";
+        for (const b of bytes) {
+          latin1 += String.fromCharCode(b);
+          ascii += String.fromCharCode(b & 0x7f);
+        }
+        const expected = { latin1, ascii, base64: btoa(latin1) };
+        for (const [encoding, msg] of Object.entries(expected)) {
+          const parser = Parser.start().string("msg", {
+            length: buffer.length,
+            encoding,
+          });
+          expect(parser.parse(buffer).msg).toStrictEqual(msg);
+        }
+      });
       it("should parse variable length string", () => {
         const buffer = hexToBuf("0c68656c6c6f2c20776f726c64");
         const parser = Parser.start()