From db19ee7e15309a7b59756d5176ff20e5ade8dfa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonin ENFRUN <antonin.e@me.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:41:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] webassembly/library: Extract and send data to print as
 UInt8Array.

This allows utf-8 data to work.  It's the receiving layer's responsibility
to deal with decoding the data.
---
 ports/webassembly/README.md  |  2 +-
 ports/webassembly/library.js | 16 ++++++----------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ports/webassembly/README.md b/ports/webassembly/README.md
index 89b8b1def7..5019d6f905 100644
--- a/ports/webassembly/README.md
+++ b/ports/webassembly/README.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ something to stdout.  The following code demonstrates basic functionality:
     <script>
       document.addEventListener("micropython-print", function(e) {
         let output = document.getElementById("micropython-stdout");
-        output.innerText += e.detail;
+        output.innerText += new TextDecoder().decode(e.detail);
       }, false);
 
       var mp_js_startup = Module["onRuntimeInitialized"];
diff --git a/ports/webassembly/library.js b/ports/webassembly/library.js
index fb31b0fe56..fc5b542488 100644
--- a/ports/webassembly/library.js
+++ b/ports/webassembly/library.js
@@ -26,16 +26,12 @@
 
 mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, {
     mp_js_write: function(ptr, len) {
-        for (var i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
-            if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
-                var b = Buffer.alloc(1);
-                b.writeInt8(getValue(ptr + i, 'i8'));
-                process.stdout.write(b);
-            } else {
-                var c = String.fromCharCode(getValue(ptr + i, 'i8'));
-                var printEvent = new CustomEvent('micropython-print', { detail: c });
-                document.dispatchEvent(printEvent);
-            }
+        const buffer = HEAPU8.subarray(ptr, ptr + len)
+        if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
+            process.stdout.write(buffer);
+        } else {
+            const printEvent = new CustomEvent('micropython-print', { detail: buffer });
+            document.dispatchEvent(printEvent);
         }
     },