Why do you need toString rather than readUTFBytes()? FWIW, readUTFBytes() 
already falls back to TextDecoder when available.

> On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Carlos Rovira <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> no problem, we can go back to how it was that line before. I changed it be
> have the same in all that class, but wasn't aware of that problem.
> So I'll change to what we had, and make to String do the same. I think it
> should work the same and as well work on IE/Edge
> 
> I'll take a look right now
> 
> 2018-06-11 11:13 GMT+02:00 Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com>>:
> 
>> FWIW, I always check web API support in MDN and caniuse.com before using
>> them in Royale.
>> 
>> Some more details win this specific issue:
>> 
>> It looks like you added toString() to BinaryData and changed UIDUtils to
>> use that.
>> 
>> I don’t think a toString method in BinaryData makes sense. Flash was very
>> smart about how it converted to a string. It was able to use the system
>> encoding if available. etc.
>> 
>> Trying to emulate that kind of behavior in BinaryData is not going to be
>> very PAYG. BinaryData already has UTF methods which cover the vast majority
>> of text needs with BinaryData. Other types of text conversions should be
>> handled using utility functions if needed.
>> 
>> There are ways to get cross-browser support similar to TextEncoder, but
>> it’s not very PAYG either.[1]
>> 
>> My $0.02,
>> Harbs
>> 
>> [1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6965107/converting-
>> between-strings-and-arraybuffers <https://stackoverflow.com/ 
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/>
>> questions/6965107/converting-between-strings-and-arraybuffers>
>>> On Jun 11, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Yishay Weiss <yishayj...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Carols,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This breaks our app on IE and Edge, as they don’t support TextDecoder.
>> Can you fix this?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: carlosrov...@apache.org <carlosrov...@apache.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2018 11:29:14 PM
>>> To: comm...@royale.apache.org
>>> Subject: [royale-asjs] branch develop updated: fix latest commit, since
>> binary data to string method was not really working
>>> 
>>> This is an automated email from the ASF dual-hosted git repository.
>>> 
>>> carlosrovira pushed a commit to branch develop
>>> in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/royale-asjs.git
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/develop by this push:
>>>    new 028a26a  fix latest commit, since binary data to string method
>> was not really working
>>> 028a26a is described below
>>> 
>>> commit 028a26ad29aac3740f150f9b971e310731a69db9
>>> Author: Carlos Rovira <carlosrov...@apache.org>
>>> AuthorDate: Sun May 27 22:28:57 2018 +0200
>>> 
>>>   fix latest commit, since binary data to string method was not really
>> working
>>> ---
>>> .../Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/utils/BinaryData.as        |
>> 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git 
>>> a/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/royale/utils/BinaryData.as
>> b/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/
>> royale/utils/BinaryData.as
>>> index 0aa3097..5500c8f 100644
>>> --- a/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/
>> royale/utils/BinaryData.as
>>> +++ b/frameworks/projects/Core/src/main/royale/org/apache/
>> royale/utils/BinaryData.as
>>> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ public class BinaryData implements IBinaryDataInput,
>> IBinaryDataOutput
>>> 
>>>        COMPILE::JS
>>>        {
>>> -            return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new
>> Uint16Array(ba));
>>> +            return (new TextDecoder("utf-8")).decode(ba);
>>>        }
>>>        }
>>> 
>>> @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ public class BinaryData implements IBinaryDataInput,
>> IBinaryDataOutput
>>>        }
>>>        COMPILE::JS
>>>        {
>>> -            return _len;;
>>> +            return _len;
>>>        }
>>>    }
>>> 
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