On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@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?
Unfortunately I suspect getting anything added on the String object will take a few years given that it's too late to get into ES6 (and in any case I suspect adding ArrayBuffer dependencies to ES6 would be controversial). / Jonas