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TextEncoder

interface TextEncoder
Jump to headingencode(input?: string): Uint8Array

Returns the result of running UTF-8's encoder.

Allows you to convert a string into binary data (in the form of a Uint8Array) given the encoding.

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Example 1

const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const str = "Hello";
const encodedData = encoder.encode(str);
console.log(encodedData); // Outputs: Uint8Array(5) [72, 101, 108, 108, 111]
Jump to headingencode(input?: string): Uint8Array

Turns a string into binary data (in the form of a Uint8Array) using UTF-8 encoding.

Encodes a string into the destination Uint8Array and returns the result of the encoding.

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