Previously v8's WriteUtf8 function would produce invalid utf-8 output
when encountering unmatched surrogate code units [1]. The new
REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8 option fixes that by replacing invalid code points
with the unicode replacement character.
[1]: JS Strings are defined as arrays of 16 bit unsigned integers. There
is no unicode enforcement, so one can easily end up with invalid unicode
code unit sequences inside a string.
Performs a quick, non-exhaustive check on the input string to see if
it's compatible with the specified string encoding.
Curently it only checks that hex strings have a length that is a
multiple of two.
Because of variations in different base64 implementation, it's been
decided to strip all padding from the end of a base64 string and
calculate its size from that.
The default encoding is 'buffer'. When the input is a string, treat it
as 'binary'. Fixes the following assertion:
node: ../src/string_bytes.cc:309: static size_t
node::StringBytes::StorageSize(v8::Handle<v8::Value>, node::encoding):
Assertion `0 && "buffer encoding specified but string provided"'
failed.
Introduced in 64fc34b2.
Fixes#5482.
Felix Geisendörfer