- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:55 -0700
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote: > Hi All, > > Something that has come up a couple of times with content authors > lately has been the desire to convert an ArrayBuffer (or part thereof) > into a decoded string. Similarly being able to encode a string into an > ArrayBuffer (or part thereof). > > Something as simple as > > DOMString decode(ArrayBufferView source, DOMString encoding); > ArrayBufferView encode(DOMString source, DOMString encoding, > [optional] ArrayBufferView destination); > > would go a very long way. The question is where to stick these > functions. Internationalization doesn't have a obvious object we can > hang functions off of (unlike, for example crypto), and the above > names are much too generic to turn into global functions. > > Ideas/opinions/bikesheds? Python3 just defines str.encode and bytes.decode. Can we not do this with String.encode and ArrayBuffer.decode? ~TJ
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