How to convert a string to a byte array which is compiled with a given charset in Go?
byte-shifting, character-encoding, go, string
Solution
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.
Problem
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.