convert-string-bytes

JavaScript component to convert to/from strings and byte arrays.

Install

Node.js/Browserify

npm install --save convert-string

Usage

stringToBytes(str)

bytesToString(bytes)

UTF8.stringToBytes(str)

UTF8.bytesToString(bytes)

Credits

Loosely inspired by code from here: https://github.com/vbuterin/bitcoinjs-lib & CryptoJS

References on JavaScript UTF-8 forced encoding

(these sources are also included as PDFs in the repo in case the links go dead)

• http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/07/encoding-decoding-utf8-in-javascript.html
• http://hossa.in/2012/07/20/utf-8-in-javascript.html

License

(MIT License)