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Encoding API

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 38)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Script API to allow encoding/decoding of strings from binary data. Common scenario: decoding a binary data file fetched via XHR into an ArrayBuffer that contains strings encoded as UTF-8.

Standards & signals

Docs: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/08/Easier-ArrayBuffer---String-conversion-with-the-Encoding-API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Encoding_API

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/encoding-api

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