On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:20:55 +0200, Joshua Bell <jsb...@chromium.org>
wrote:
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/StringEncoding
defines a binary encoding
(basically the official iso-8859-1 where it is not mapped to
windows-1252).
.... which is residue from earlier iterations. Intended use case was
interop with legacy JS that used the lower 8 bits of strings to hold
binary
data, e.g. with APIs like atob()/btoa().
I think we should drop this and extend atob() and btoa() to be able to
convert base64 strings to ArrayBuffer[View?] and back directly.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
