[whatwg] API for encoding/decoding ArrayBuffers into text

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Thu Mar 22 02:12:55 PDT 2012


On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:12:25 +0100, Mark Callow <callow_mark at hicorp.co.jp>  
wrote:
> This has encode and decode reversed from my understanding. I regard the
> string (wide-char) as the canonical form and the bytes as the encoded
> form. This view is reflected in the widely used terminology "charset
> encodings" which refers to the likes of euc-kr and shift_jis.

Yeah, I suspect we'll get it right once put in a draft :-)


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