utf-8-validate

Check if a buffer contains valid UTF-8

Last updated 3 years ago by lpinca .

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utf-8-validate

Check if a buffer contains valid UTF-8 encoded text.

Installation

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.

API

The module exports a single function which takes one argument.

`isValidUTF8(buffer)`

Checks whether a buffer contains valid UTF-8.

Arguments

buffer - The buffer to check.

Return value

true if the buffer contains only correct UTF-8, else false.

Example

'use strict';

const isValidUTF8 = require('utf-8-validate');

const buf = Buffer.from([0xf0, 0x90, 0x80, 0x80]);

console.log(isValidUTF8(buf));
// => true

License

MIT

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6.0.3 ... latest (2 years ago)
4.0.0-napi ... n-api (7 years ago)

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node-gyp-build ^4.2.0

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mocha ^9.0.3
node-gyp ^7.1.2
prebuildify ^4.0.0
prebuildify-cross ^4.0.0

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