text-encoding-utf-8

text-encoding-utf-8
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This is a partial 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.

This is fork of text-encoding
that only support UTF-8.

Basic examples and tests are included.

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There are a few ways you can get the text-encoding-utf-8 library.

#### Node ####

text-encoding-utf-8 is on npm. Simply run:

``js
npm install text-encoding-utf-8
`

Or add it to your package.json dependencies.

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Basic Usage

`js
var uint8array = TextEncoder(encoding).encode(string);
var string = TextDecoder(encoding).decode(uint8array);
`

Streaming Decode

`js
var string = "", decoder = TextDecoder(encoding), buffer;
while (buffer = next_chunk()) {
string += decoder.decode(buffer, {stream:true});
}
string += decoder.decode(); // finish the stream
`

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Only utf-8 and UTF-8 are supported.

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Only utf-8 and UTF-8` are supported.

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Binary size matters, especially on a mobile phone. Safari on iOS does not
support TextDecoder or TextEncoder.