TextEncoder

open external class TextEncoder : TextEncoderCommon(source)

TextEncoder takes a stream of code points as input and emits a stream of bytes. For a more scalable, non-native library, see StringView – a C-like representation of strings based on typed arrays.

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Constructors

TextEncoder

constructor()

Properties

encoding

open val encoding: String

Returns "utf-8".

Functions

encode

fun encode(input: String = definedExternally): Uint8Array

Returns the result of running UTF-8's encoder.

encodeInto

fun encodeInto(source: String, destination: Uint8Array): TextEncoderEncodeIntoResult

Runs the UTF-8 encoder on source, stores the result of that operation into destination, and returns the progress made as an object wherein read is the number of converted code units of source and written is the number of bytes modified in destination.