Similarities to TextEncoder

[harumazzz]

Sorry, I have face an problem. When using a DataView to write a string, in node or web browser I can call TextEncoder, encode method to create an Uint8Array and write it to the DataView. However, in quickjs I don't have similarities to it, is it possible to achieve it with the existing quickjs API? (0.9.0)

Edit: I think using charCodeAt and setUint8 will not guarantee for utf8 character, if not please correct me, thanks.

[saghul]

You can use a TextEncoder polyfill, there is no builtin API equivalent to TextEncoder.

[bnoordhuis]

We did add some non-ECMA-but-web-spec things in #16. I wouldn't object to TextEncoder, although:

1. TextEncoderStream is off the table because that means pulling in all of web streams, and

2. Supporting more than, let's say, UTF-8 and ISO-8559-1 in TextDecoder is unlikely because too much complexity, making it kind of anemic

I think using charCodeAt and setUint8 will not guarantee for utf8 character

Indeed it won't; utf-8 is a variable-length encoding. Doing that encoding manually is not super hard but, as Saúl mentions, polyfills exist.