encoding

Documentation

Index

• func Decode(name string) (string, error)
• func Encode(name string) string

Functions

func Decode

func Decode(name string) (string, error)

Decode returns a decoded string that was encoded using Encode.

If the provided string is not a valid encoding (for example it ends with a backslash) then an error will be returned.

func Encode

func Encode(name string) string

Encode returns a string that uses Go escape sequences for non-ASCII and non-printable characters as defined by IsPrint. In addition some other characters such as backslashes (\) and double quotes (") will also be escaped using Go escape sequence.

The rational here is that given Nixplay does not document any sort of API we really don't have any guarantee what sort of characters it supports now or in the future. I did some experimentation and things seem to mostly work except for some non-ASCII characters like emoji. So in an effort to make sure we can continue to support any sort of weird names that we can come up with we will be pretty aggressive with the encoding and encode any non-ASCII or non-printable characters.