Message.toObject decode bytes to UTF8 String

[yagop]

Using option { bytes: 'utf8' } in Message.toObject will decode bytes to String (Buffer.toString()). Previos options are preserved.

[dcodeIO]

Note that Buffer is not available in the browser. Any reason for not using the string type?

[yagop]

Sorry, it turns out what I need is to decode to latin1. Would be good to have multiple supported Buffer encodings.

Didn't realize about Buffer is not available in the browser :(

[dcodeIO]

My feeling on this one is that one should use another library for custom encodings that are not part of protobuf itself.

[yagop]

I was trying to overwrite .toObject like on #879 but I think its not possible, it is?

[Gcaufy]

I agree to add an { bytes: 'utf8' } option.

Because in C++, they like to use bytes as string. bytes can be used as utf-8 string directly.

[Gcaufy]

in case someone else still need this:

https://github.com/Gcaufy/protobufjs.shim