[whatwg] API for encoding/decoding ArrayBuffers into text

[Charles Pritchard]

On 3/21/2012 8:53 AM, Joshua Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk at opera.com>wrote:
>
>> >  On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:27:47 -0700, Jonas Sicking<jonas at sicking.cc>
>> >  wrote:
>> >
>>> >>  This leaves us with 2 or 3. So the question is if we should support
>>> >>  streaming or not. I suspect doing so would be worth it.
>>> >>
>> >
>> >  For XMLHttpRequest it might be, yes.
>> >
>> >  I think we should expose the same encoding set throughout the platform.
>> >  One reason to limit the encoding set initially might be because we have not
>> >  all converged yet on our encoding sets. Gecko, Safari, and Internet
>> >  Explorer expose a lot more encodings than Opera and Chrome.
>> >
> Just to throw it out there - does anyone feel we can/should offer
> asymmetric encode/decode support, i.e. supporting more encodings for decode
> operations than for encode operations?

In the past decade I've never had to encode into something other than 
UTF-8. I have had to decode many encoding sets.

If I did need to do a special encoding, given the state of typed arrays, 
I'd probably just implement the encoding in JS.

+1 for asymmetric from my experience.

-Charles