Re: [whatwg/encoding] Identity encoding? (#138)

We basically don't want to expand what we consider "text" so supporting these through `TextDecoder` and `TextEncoder` is unlikely to happen.

FWIW, https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#isomorphic-decode and https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#isomorphic-encode are those operations within the web platform, but they don't have an exposed API.

We've had requests for `base64` (and maybe `base64url`, don't quite remember) too, but no proposal came forward.

There's also a proposal for gzip streaming, tracked at https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/653.

Perhaps these "non-text" things should form their own set of APIs.

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