utf-8-validate
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Package description
The utf-8-validate npm package is used to validate UTF-8 encoded data. It is primarily used to ensure that a stream of data is valid UTF-8 before processing it further. This can be particularly useful when dealing with text data in network communication or file processing where UTF-8 encoding is expected.
Validation of UTF-8 Encoded Data
This feature allows you to validate whether a given Buffer contains valid UTF-8 encoded data. The function `isValidUTF8` returns a boolean indicating the validity of the data.
const { isValidUTF8 } = require('utf-8-validate');
const buffer = Buffer.from('valid UTF-8 string', 'utf8');
const isValid = isValidUTF8(buffer);
console.log(isValid); // true or falseThe is-utf8 package is similar to utf-8-validate as it provides a function to check if a Buffer is valid UTF-8. It is a simple and lightweight package for UTF-8 validation.
utf8-validator is another package that offers UTF-8 validation functionality. It provides a streaming interface for validating UTF-8 data, which can be useful for processing large data streams efficiently.
Readme
Check if a buffer contains valid UTF-8 encoded text.
npm install utf-8-validate --save-optional
The --save-optional flag tells npm to save the package in your package.json
under the optionalDependencies
key.
The module exports a single function which takes one argument.
isValidUTF8(buffer)Checks whether a buffer contains valid UTF-8.
buffer - The buffer to check.true if the buffer contains only correct UTF-8, else false.
'use strict';
const isValidUTF8 = require('utf-8-validate');
const buf = Buffer.from([0xf0, 0x90, 0x80, 0x80]);
console.log(isValidUTF8(buf));
// => true
FAQs
Check if a buffer contains valid UTF-8
The npm package utf-8-validate receives a total of 1,629,849 weekly downloads. As such, utf-8-validate popularity was classified as popular.
We found that utf-8-validate demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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