1876153 - Add UTF-8 support to js-string-builtins

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript: WebAssembly, task, P2)

Description

[Ryan Hunt [:rhunt]]

The Encoding API builtin modules defined in the proposal add support for UTF-8 encoding through:

1. wasm:text-decoder" "decodeStringFromUTF8Array
2. "wasm:text-encoder" "measureStringAsUTF8"
3. "wasm:text-encoder" "encodeStringIntoUTF8Array"
4. "wasm:text-encoder" "encodeStringToUTF8Array"

Comment 1

[Ben Visness [:bvisness]]

Per https://github.com/WebAssembly/js-string-builtins/issues/34, we are not doing this for the JS string builtins proposal, and the design of these builtins will likely be re-evaluated later.

Comment 2

[jerome]

Attachment: Bug 1876153 - Add UTF-8 support to js-string-builtins. r=rhunt

Comment 3

[Ryan Hunt [:rhunt]]

Hi Jerome, thanks for this patch! As Ben says, I think we'll want to re-evaluate the design of these builtins, so I don't think we can merge this right now. I'm hoping to get js-string-builtins to phase 4 at the next CG, but after that I want to champion another builtins proposal and would be happy to include the text-encoder/decoder stuff in that.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 5

[jerome]

Hi Ryan,
I understand that you want to get js-string-builtins to move forward rapidly. I hope this patch can be useful for the next builtins proposals.