iconv-lite VS he

Then, the Text (or call it String) class is also a List. There are 3 types of Text classes: Text8, Text16 and Text32. Notice I was kind of vague in what I meant there. Take Text8 for example. Using Text8, we have many different encodings. We have the UTF8 encoding, as well as many other "single byte encodings" like ASCII.

I won't go into detail about how to map a character into its Shift JIS code for now, as there are good libraries for the job (iconv-lite comes to mind, and you can even have a look to the actual table if you want to whip up your own solution). It's sufficient to say that we'll need 13 bits (213 = 8192) for each one of them.

For Kanji mode... oh dear. First, we'd have to get the Shift JIS code of the pictogram, and the best way to do it is using a library like iconv-lite or, if you want to to it on your own, use its symbol table. Also, not every symbol can be used, but only those in the ranges 0x8140 to 0x9FFC and 0xE040 to 0xEBBF. In the end, a Kanji character will take 13 bits.

This obviously does not work with the Mustache parser. So I had to uninstall another package to decode the HTML entities, and then deal with the original recursive replacement problem. Here’s what the final code looks like:

Still, we were just using state to control the message value which was ultimately a string. The question was how could we parse this inside of the input box? Yes, dangerouslySetInnerHtml was an option I guess but we researched a bit and at last went with a better way, with a better package called he which is used to encode and decode HTML entities.