JavaScript typed arrays — Reading text from a buffer

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Buffers don't always represent numbers. For example, reading a file can give you a text data buffer. You can read this data out of the buffer using a typed array. The following reads UTF-8 text using the {{domxref("TextDecoder")}} web API The following reads UTF-16 text using the {{jsxref("String.fromCharCode()")}} method Attribution: Adapted from MDN Web Docs under CC-BY-SA-2.5. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.