API reference › @evolu/common › Bytes › utf8ToBytes

function utf8ToBytes(text: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer>;

Defined in: packages/common/src/Bytes.ts:120

Encodes a string as UTF-8 bytes.

A lone surrogate, which UTF-8 cannot represent, becomes U+FFFD.

Example

import { assertEqual, utf8ToBytes } from "@evolu/common";

assertEqual(utf8ToBytes("é"), new Uint8Array([0xc3, 0xa9]));
assertEqual(utf8ToBytes("\uD800"), new Uint8Array([0xef, 0xbf, 0xbd]));
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