StringUtils

This library was meant to be used with Jacob Seidelin's BinaryAjax library. The necessity for reading UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings was risen while developing the ID3 reader ID3 Reader since the input is only an array of bytes that must be read in a specific charset.

How To Use It

>StringUtils.readUTF8String([0xe6,0xac,0xa1,0xe5,0xb8,0xb8,0xe7,0x94,0xa8,0xe5,
                             0x9c,0x8b,0xe5,0xad,0x97,0xe6,0xa8,0x99,0xe6,0xba, 
                             0x96,0xe5,0xad,0x97,0xe9,0xab,0x94,0xe8,0xa1,0xa8])
"次常用國字標準字體表"

>StringUtils.readUTF16String([0xff,0xfe,0x34,0xd8,0x1e,0xdd])
"������"

Documentation

StringUtils.readUTF8String(bytes, [maxBytes])
bytes - The array of bytes to be read.
maxBytes - Optional parameter, maximum number of bytes to be read from the array. Default value is: bytes.length.
return value - A String object with an aditional bytesReadCount property indicating how many bytes were read to create the string.

StringUtils.readUTF16String(bytes, [bigEndian], [maxBytes])
bytes - The array of bytes to be read.
bigEndian - Optional parameter, the endianness of the string to be read. This parameter is only used when the string doesn't have a BOM. Default value is: false
maxBytes - Optional parameter, maximum number of bytes to be read from the array. Default value is: bytes.length.
return value - A String object with an aditional bytesReadCount property indicating how many bytes were read to create the string.