- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:29:44 +0200
- To: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Joshua Bell" <jsbell@chromium.org>
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:20:55 +0200, Joshua Bell <jsbell@chromium.org> wrote: >> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/StringEncoding >> defines a binary encoding >> (basically the official iso-8859-1 where it is not mapped to >> windows-1252). > > > .... which is residue from earlier iterations. Intended use case was > interop with legacy JS that used the lower 8 bits of strings to hold > binary > data, e.g. with APIs like atob()/btoa(). I think we should drop this and extend atob() and btoa() to be able to convert base64 strings to ArrayBuffer[View?] and back directly. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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