text-decoding

text-decoding is a fork of Polyfill for the Encoding Living Standard's API (text-encoding) For Node.JS.

This is a polyfill for the Encoding Living Standard API for the Web, allowing encoding and decoding of textual data to and from Typed Array buffers for binary data in JavaScript.

By default it adheres to the spec and does not support encoding to legacy encodings, only decoding. It is also implemented to match the specification's algorithms, rather than for performance.

yarn add text-decoding

Table Of Contents
API
class TextDecoder
class TextEncoder
const EncodingIndexes
getEncoding(label: string): { name: string, labels: Array<string> }
Encodings
Copyright

API

The package is available by importing its named classes and functions:

import { TextEncoder, TextDecoder, EncodingIndexes, getEncoding } from 'text-decoding'

`class TextDecoder`

Decodes a Uint8Array into a string.

Source Output

Source	Output
`import { TextDecoder } from 'text-decoding' const decoded = new TextDecoder('utf-8') .decode(new Uint8Array([ 0x7A, 0xC2, 0xA2, 0xE6, 0xB0, 0xB4, 0xF0, 0x9D, 0x84, 0x9E, 0xF4, 0x8F, 0xBF, 0xBD, ])) console.log(decoded)`	`z¢水𝄞􏿽`

import { TextDecoder } from 'text-decoding'

const decoded = new TextDecoder('utf-8')
  .decode(new Uint8Array([
    0x7A, 0xC2, 0xA2, 0xE6, 0xB0, 0xB4, 0xF0,
    0x9D, 0x84, 0x9E, 0xF4, 0x8F, 0xBF, 0xBD,
  ]))
console.log(decoded)

z¢水𝄞􏿽

`class TextEncoder`

Encodes a string into Uint8Array for the given encoding.

As required by the specification, only encoding to utf-8 is supported. If you want to try it out, you can force a non-standard behavior by passing the NONSTANDARD_allowLegacyEncoding option to TextEncoder and a label. For example:

import { TextEncoder } from 'text-decoding'

const uint8array = new TextEncoder(
  'windows-1252', { NONSTANDARD_allowLegacyEncoding: true })
  .encode('hello world')

console.log(uint8array)

Uint8Array [ 104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100 ]

`const EncodingIndexes`

This is a map of indexes used for encoding.

`getEncoding(`
`label: string,`
`): { name: string, labels: Array<string> }`

Returns the normalised name of the encoding and its associated labels.

Source Output

Source	Output
`import { getEncoding } from 'text-decoding' const encoding = getEncoding('ascii') console.log(encoding)`	`{ labels: [ 'ansi_x3.4-1968', 'ascii', 'cp1252', 'cp819', 'csisolatin1', 'ibm819', 'iso-8859-1', 'iso-ir-100', 'iso8859-1', 'iso88591', 'iso_8859-1', 'iso_8859-1:1987', 'l1', 'latin1', 'us-ascii', 'windows-1252', 'x-cp1252' ], name: 'windows-1252' }`

import { getEncoding } from 'text-decoding'

const encoding = getEncoding('ascii')
console.log(encoding)

{ labels: 
   [ 'ansi_x3.4-1968',
     'ascii',
     'cp1252',
     'cp819',
     'csisolatin1',
     'ibm819',
     'iso-8859-1',
     'iso-ir-100',
     'iso8859-1',
     'iso88591',
     'iso_8859-1',
     'iso_8859-1:1987',
     'l1',
     'latin1',
     'us-ascii',
     'windows-1252',
     'x-cp1252' ],
  name: 'windows-1252' }

Encodings

All encodings from the Encoding specification are supported:

utf-8 ibm866 iso-8859-2 iso-8859-3 iso-8859-4 iso-8859-5 iso-8859-6 iso-8859-7 iso-8859-8 iso-8859-8-i iso-8859-10 iso-8859-13 iso-8859-14 iso-8859-15 iso-8859-16 koi8-r koi8-u macintosh windows-874 windows-1250 windows-1251 windows-1252 windows-1253 windows-1254 windows-1255 windows-1256 windows-1257 windows-1258 x-mac-cyrillic gb18030 hz-gb-2312 big5 euc-jp iso-2022-jp shift_jis euc-kr replacement utf-16be utf-16le x-user-defined

(Some encodings may be supported under other names, e.g. ascii, iso-8859-1, etc. See Encoding for additional labels for each encoding.)