Function strToU8

strToU8(str: string, latin1?: boolean): Uint8Array
Converts a string into a Uint8Array for use with compression/decompression methods
Parameters
- str: string
  The string to encode
- Optionallatin1: boolean
  Whether or not to interpret the data as Latin-1. This should not need to be true unless decoding a binary string.
Returns Uint8Array
The string encoded in UTF-8/Latin-1 binary