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diff --git a/alarm/node_modules/whatwg-encoding/README.md b/alarm/node_modules/whatwg-encoding/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c7e468 --- /dev/null +++ b/alarm/node_modules/whatwg-encoding/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# Decode According to the WHATWG Encoding Standard + +This package provides a thin layer on top of [iconv-lite](https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite) which makes it expose some of the same primitives as the [Encoding Standard](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/). + +```js +const whatwgEncoding = require("whatwg-encoding"); + +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.labelToName("latin1") === "windows-1252"); +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.labelToName(" CYRILLic ") === "ISO-8859-5"); + +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.isSupported("IBM866") === true); + +// Not supported by the Encoding Standard +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.isSupported("UTF-32") === false); + +// In the Encoding Standard, but this package can't decode it +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.isSupported("x-mac-cyrillic") === false); + +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.getBOMEncoding(new Buffer([0xFE, 0xFF])) === "UTF-16BE"); +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.getBOMEncoding(new Buffer([0x48, 0x69])) === null); + +console.assert(whatwgEncoding.decode(new Buffer([0x48, 0x69]), "UTF-8") === "Hi"); +``` + +## API + +- `decode(buffer, fallbackEncodingName)`: performs the [decode](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#decode) algorithm (in which any BOM will override the passed fallback encoding), and returns the resulting string +- `labelToName(label)`: performs the [get an encoding](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-get) algorithm and returns the resulting encoding's name, or `null` for failure +- `isSupported(name)`: returns whether the encoding is one of [the encodings](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels) of the Encoding Standard, _and_ is an encoding that this package can decode (via iconv-lite) +- `getBOMEncoding(buffer)`: sniffs the first 2–3 bytes of the supplied `Buffer`, returning one of the encoding names `"UTF-8"`, `"UTF-16LE"`, or `"UTF-16BE"` if the appropriate BOM is present, or `null` if no BOM is present + +## Unsupported encodings + +Since we rely on iconv-lite, we are limited to support only the encodings that they support. Currently we are missing support for: + +- ISO-2022-JP +- ISO-8859-8-I +- replacement +- x-mac-cyrillic +- x-user-defined + +Passing these encoding names will return `false` when calling `isSupported`, and passing any of the possible labels for these encodings to `labelToName` will return `null`. + +## Credits + +This package was originally based on the excellent work of [@nicolashenry](https://github.com/nicolashenry), [in jsdom](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/blob/7ce11776ce161e8d5921a7a183585327400f786b/lib/jsdom/living/helpers/encoding.js). It has since been pulled out into this separate package. + +## Alternatives + +If you are looking for a JavaScript implementation of the Encoding Standard's `TextEncoder` and `TextDecoder` APIs, you'll want [@inexorabletash](https://github.com/inexorabletash)'s [text-encoding](https://github.com/inexorabletash/text-encoding) package. |