wtf8

A Node.JS UTF-8 encoder and decoder which is able to handle characters outside Basic Multilingual Plane

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import wtf8 from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/wtf8';
</script>

A UTF-8 decoder and encoder which can handle characters outside Basic Multilingual Plane for node.js. It's also reasonably fast.

V8 doesn't like 4-byte UTF-8 characters. 😞

Decode buffer containing UTF-8 data to JS string.

var utf8 = require('wtf8');
utf8.decode(new Buffer([0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f]));
// => 'hello'

Encode strings to buffer.

var utf8 = require('wtf8');
utf8.encode('hello');
// => <SlowBuffer 68 65 6c 6c 6f>