Convert JavaScript utf-8 string to bytes array.

utf8ToBytes.js

// source https://github.com/feross/buffer/blob/master/index.js#L1956
function utf8ToBytes (string, units) {
  units = units || Infinity
  let codePoint
  const length = string.length
  let leadSurrogate = null
  const bytes = []

  for (let i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
    codePoint = string.charCodeAt(i)

    // is surrogate component
    if (codePoint > 0xD7FF && codePoint < 0xE000) {
      // last char was a lead
      if (!leadSurrogate) {
        // no lead yet
        if (codePoint > 0xDBFF) {
          // unexpected trail
          if ((units -= 3) > -1) bytes.push(0xEF, 0xBF, 0xBD)
          continue
        } else if (i + 1 === length) {
          // unpaired lead
          if ((units -= 3) > -1) bytes.push(0xEF, 0xBF, 0xBD)
          continue
        }

        // valid lead
        leadSurrogate = codePoint

        continue
      }

      // 2 leads in a row
      if (codePoint < 0xDC00) {
        if ((units -= 3) > -1) bytes.push(0xEF, 0xBF, 0xBD)
        leadSurrogate = codePoint
        continue
      }

      // valid surrogate pair
      codePoint = (leadSurrogate - 0xD800 << 10 | codePoint - 0xDC00) + 0x10000
    } else if (leadSurrogate) {
      // valid bmp char, but last char was a lead
      if ((units -= 3) > -1) bytes.push(0xEF, 0xBF, 0xBD)
    }

    leadSurrogate = null

    // encode utf8
    if (codePoint < 0x80) {
      if ((units -= 1) < 0) break
      bytes.push(codePoint)
    } else if (codePoint < 0x800) {
      if ((units -= 2) < 0) break
      bytes.push(
        codePoint >> 0x6 | 0xC0,
        codePoint & 0x3F | 0x80
      )
    } else if (codePoint < 0x10000) {
      if ((units -= 3) < 0) break
      bytes.push(
        codePoint >> 0xC | 0xE0,
        codePoint >> 0x6 & 0x3F | 0x80,
        codePoint & 0x3F | 0x80
      )
    } else if (codePoint < 0x110000) {
      if ((units -= 4) < 0) break
      bytes.push(
        codePoint >> 0x12 | 0xF0,
        codePoint >> 0xC & 0x3F | 0x80,
        codePoint >> 0x6 & 0x3F | 0x80,
        codePoint & 0x3F | 0x80
      )
    } else {
      throw new Error('Invalid code point')
    }
  }

  return bytes
}