[whatwg] Adding a btoa overload that takes Uint8Array

[Kenneth Russell]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Joshua Bell <jsbell at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> The problem I'm trying to solve is sending Unicode text to consumers who
>> need base64-encoded input.  Right now the only "sane" way to do it (and I
>> quote "sane" for obvious reasons) is something like the example at
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/**en-US/docs/DOM/window.btoa#**
>> Unicode_Strings<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.btoa#Unicode_Strings>
>>
>> It seems like it would be better if the output of a TextEncoder could be
>> passed directly to btoa.  But for that we need an overload of btoa that
>> takes a Uint8Array.
>>
>
> FYI, I believe the last iteration on this topic ended with this message:
>
> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-June/036372.html
>
> i.e. consensus that base64 should stay out of the Encoding API, but that it
> would be nice to have some form of base64 / Typed Array conversion API. But
> there were no concrete proposals beyond my strawman in that post.
>
> So: agreed, have at it!

Yes, adding an overload of btoa taking Uint8Array sounds good.