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.

Documentation TextEncoder by Mozilla Contributors, licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.

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Constructor

new (utfLabel:String = "utf-8")

Throws:

null

DOMError

Variables

read onlyencoding:String

Is a DOMString containing the name of the encoder, that is a string describing the method the TextEncoder will use.

Methods

encode (input:String = ""):Uint8Array

Returns a Uint8Array containing utf-8 encoded text.