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@types/utf8
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TypeScript definitions for utf8
npm install --save @types/utf8
This package contains type definitions for utf8 (https://github.com/mathiasbynens/utf8.js).
Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/utf8.
export as namespace utf8;
/**
* A string representing the semantic version number.
*/
export const version: string;
/**
* Encodes any given JavaScript string (string) as UTF-8, and returns the UTF-8-encoded version of the string.
* It throws an error if the input string contains a non-scalar value, i.e. a lone surrogate.
* @param inputString
*/
export function encode(inputString: string): string;
/**
* Decodes any given UTF-8-encoded string (byteString) as UTF-8, and returns the UTF-8-decoded version of the string.
* It throws an error when malformed UTF-8 is detected.
* @param byteString
*/
export function decode(byteString: string): string;
These definitions were written by Piotr Błażejewicz.
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TypeScript definitions for utf8
The npm package @types/utf8 receives a total of 86,562 weekly downloads. As such, @types/utf8 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @types/utf8 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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