How to convert a string to a byte array which is compiled with a given charset in Go?

Question

In java, we can use the method of String : byte[] getBytes(Charset charset) . This method Encodes a String into a sequence of bytes using the given charset, storing the result into a new byte array.

But how to do this in GO? Is there any similar way in Go can do this?

Please let me know it.

Answer 1

The standard Go library only supports Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) and ASCII encoding. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.

The go-charset package (found from here) supports conversion to and from UTF-8 and it also links to the GNU iconv library.

See also field CharsetReader in encoding/xml.Decoder.

Answer 2

I believe here is an answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6933412/1315563

There is no way to do it without writing the conversion yourself or using a third-party package. You could try using this: http://code.google.com/p/go-charset