I need to convert an utf-8 string to utf-16LE in javascript like the iconv() php function.
Ie:
iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-16LE", $string);
The output should be like this:
49 00 6e 00 64 00 65 00 78 00
I found this func to decode UTF-16LE and it's works fine but i don't know how to do the same to encode.
function decodeUTF16LE( binaryStr ) {
var cp = [];
for( var i = 0; i < binaryStr.length; i+=2) {
cp.push(
binaryStr.charCodeAt(i) |
( binaryStr.charCodeAt(i+1) << 8 )
);
}
return String.fromCharCode.apply( String, cp );
}
The conclusion is to create a binary file that can be downloaded.
The code:
function download(filename, text) {
var a = window.document.createElement('a');
var byteArray = new Uint8Array(text.length);
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
byteArray[i] = text.charCodeAt(i) & 0xff;
}
a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([byteArray.buffer], {'type': 'application/type'}));
a.download = filename;
// Append anchor to body.
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.click();
// Remove anchor from body
document.body.removeChild(a);
}
This should do it:
var byteArray = new Uint8Array(text.length * 2);
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
byteArray[i*2] = text.charCodeAt(i) // & 0xff;
byteArray[i*2+1] = text.charCodeAt(i) >> 8 // & 0xff;
}
It's the inverse of your decodeUTF16LE
function. Notice that neither works with code points outside of the BMP.
Thanks a lot Bergi, this works perfectly combining to standard utf8 to utf16 encode function:
function encodeUTF16LE(str) {
var out, i, len, c;
var char2, char3;
out = "";
len = str.length;
i = 0;
while(i < len) {
c = str.charCodeAt(i++);
switch(c >> 4)
{
case 0: case 1: case 2: case 3: case 4: case 5: case 6: case 7:
// 0xxxxxxx
out += str.charAt(i-1);
break;
case 12: case 13:
// 110x xxxx 10xx xxxx
char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x1F) << 6) | (char2 & 0x3F));
out += str.charAt(i-1);
break;
case 14:
// 1110 xxxx 10xx xxxx 10xx xxxx
char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
char3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x0F) << 12) | ((char2 & 0x3F) << 6) | ((char3 & 0x3F) << 0));
break;
}
}
var byteArray = new Uint8Array(out.length * 2);
for (var i = 0; i < out.length; i++) {
byteArray[i*2] = out.charCodeAt(i); // & 0xff;
byteArray[i*2+1] = out.charCodeAt(i) >> 8; // & 0xff;
}
return String.fromCharCode.apply( String, byteArray );
}