text-encoder-lite

TextEncoderLite
==============

Extracted from Feross' Buffer as a lightweight Polyfill
for TextEncoder.

See also
* TextEncoder / TextDecoder
* DateView
* text-encoding
* Unibabel
* TextEncoderLite (based on text-encoding)

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There are a few ways you can get the text-encoder-lite library.

#### Node ####

text-encoder-lite is on npm. Simply run:

``js
npm install text-encoder-lite
`

Or add it to your package.json dependencies.

You can use it as follows:

`js
var TextDecoder = require('text-encoder-lite').TextDecoderLite;
var TextEncoder = require('text-encoder-lite').TextEncoderLite;
`

#### Bower ####

text-encoder-lite is on bower as well. Install with bower like so:

`js
bower install text-encoder-lite
`

Or add it to your bower.json dependencies.

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`html


`

And in your scripts:

`js
var TextDecoder = window.TextDecoderLite;
var TextEncoder = window.TextEncoderLite;
`

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Basic Usage

`js
var uint8array = new TextEncoderLite('utf-8').encode(string);
var string = new TextDecoderLite('utf-8').decode(uint8array);
``

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Only UTF-8 encoding is supported.
See text-encoding for full support,
including multi-lingual non-standard encodings that aren't supported by TextEncoder proper.

If it seems beneficial I could bring in support for utf-16be, utf-16le, and x-user-defined.