The **text‑encoding** repository provides a JavaScript polyfill that implements the WHATWG Encoding Living Standard’s `TextEncoder` and `TextDecoder` APIs, enabling web pages to encode strings to Uint8Array buffers and decode binary data using the full range of legacy and Unicode encodings. It is aimed at front‑end developers who need reliable, spec‑compliant text encoding/decoding in browsers that lack native support, and is distributed as simple `<script>` tags (with optional npm/bower packaging).