[whatwg] BinaryEncoding for Typed Arrays using window.btoa and window.atob
Alain Couthures
alain.couthures at agencexml.com
Wed Aug 7 03:55:05 PDT 2013
Because I implemented MS-Office files manipulation in my browser-side XForms implementation, such TextDecoder and TextEncoder are very interesting.
Alain Couthures
agenceXML
http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms
De : Anne van Kesteren
Envoyé : mercredi 7 août 2013 06:28
À : Chang Shu
Cc : WHATWG
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Chang Shu <cshu01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But it appears to me we have to introduce
> another pair of coders, say BinaryDecoder/BinaryEncoder, in addition
> to TextDecoder/TextEncode since the signatures of the decode/encode
> functions are different.
So TextDecoder is bytes to string and TextEncoder is string to bytes.
If we always represent the base64-variant as a sequence of bytes the
signature seems fine. If you want to get a string out of those bytes
again you could utf-8 decode it for instance.
I'd be interested in knowing what the level of interest is outside of
Google for this feature.
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