从emscripten:

function stringToUTF8Array(str, outU8Array, outIdx, maxBytesToWrite) {
  if (!(maxBytesToWrite > 0)) return 0;
  var startIdx = outIdx;
  var endIdx = outIdx + maxBytesToWrite - 1;
  for (var i = 0; i < str.length; ++i) {
    var u = str.charCodeAt(i);
    if (u >= 55296 && u <= 57343) {
      var u1 = str.charCodeAt(++i);
      u = 65536 + ((u & 1023) << 10) | u1 & 1023
    }
    if (u <= 127) {
      if (outIdx >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = u
    } else if (u <= 2047) {
      if (outIdx + 1 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 192 | u >> 6;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    } else if (u <= 65535) {
      if (outIdx + 2 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 224 | u >> 12;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 6 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    } else {
      if (outIdx + 3 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 240 | u >> 18;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 12 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 6 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    }
  }
  outU8Array[outIdx] = 0;
  return outIdx - startIdx
}

使用:

stringToUTF8Array('abs', new Uint8Array(3), 0, 4);

var decoder = new TextDecoder ();
var string = decoder.decode (arrayBuffer);

参见https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder/decode

我不建议使用已弃用的api，如BlobBuilder

Blob对象早已弃用了BlobBuilder。将Dennis回答中的代码(其中使用了BlobBuilder)与下面的代码进行比较:

function arrayBufferGen(str, cb) {

  var b = new Blob([str]);
  var f = new FileReader();

  f.onload = function(e) {
    cb(e.target.result);
  }

  f.readAsArrayBuffer(b);

}

请注意，与已弃用的方法相比，这是多么干净和不那么臃肿……是的，这绝对是需要考虑的。

从emscripten:

function stringToUTF8Array(str, outU8Array, outIdx, maxBytesToWrite) {
  if (!(maxBytesToWrite > 0)) return 0;
  var startIdx = outIdx;
  var endIdx = outIdx + maxBytesToWrite - 1;
  for (var i = 0; i < str.length; ++i) {
    var u = str.charCodeAt(i);
    if (u >= 55296 && u <= 57343) {
      var u1 = str.charCodeAt(++i);
      u = 65536 + ((u & 1023) << 10) | u1 & 1023
    }
    if (u <= 127) {
      if (outIdx >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = u
    } else if (u <= 2047) {
      if (outIdx + 1 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 192 | u >> 6;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    } else if (u <= 65535) {
      if (outIdx + 2 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 224 | u >> 12;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 6 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    } else {
      if (outIdx + 3 >= endIdx) break;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 240 | u >> 18;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 12 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u >> 6 & 63;
      outU8Array[outIdx++] = 128 | u & 63
    }
  }
  outU8Array[outIdx] = 0;
  return outIdx - startIdx
}

使用:

stringToUTF8Array('abs', new Uint8Array(3), 0, 4);

尽管Dennis和gengkev使用Blob/FileReader的解决方案有效，但我不建议采用这种方法。这是一种解决简单问题的异步方法，比直接解决方案要慢得多。我在html5rocks上发布了一个更简单(更快)的解决方案: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/06/How-to-convert-ArrayBuffer-to-and-from-String

解决方案是:

function ab2str(buf) {
  return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array(buf));
}

function str2ab(str) {
  var buf = new ArrayBuffer(str.length*2); // 2 bytes for each char
  var bufView = new Uint16Array(buf);
  for (var i=0, strLen=str.length; i<strLen; i++) {
    bufView[i] = str.charCodeAt(i);
  }
  return buf;
}

编辑:

Encoding API帮助解决字符串转换问题。请查看Jeff Posnik在Html5Rocks.com上对上述原创文章的回复。

摘录:

Encoding API使原始字节和原生JavaScript字符串之间的转换变得简单，而不考虑需要使用的许多标准编码中的哪一种。

<pre id="results"></pre>

<script>
  if ('TextDecoder' in window) {
    // The local files to be fetched, mapped to the encoding that they're using.
    var filesToEncoding = {
      'utf8.bin': 'utf-8',
      'utf16le.bin': 'utf-16le',
      'macintosh.bin': 'macintosh'
    };

    Object.keys(filesToEncoding).forEach(function(file) {
      fetchAndDecode(file, filesToEncoding[file]);
    });
  } else {
    document.querySelector('#results').textContent = 'Your browser does not support the Encoding API.'
  }

  // Use XHR to fetch `file` and interpret its contents as being encoded with `encoding`.
  function fetchAndDecode(file, encoding) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET', file);
    // Using 'arraybuffer' as the responseType ensures that the raw data is returned,
    // rather than letting XMLHttpRequest decode the data first.
    xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
    xhr.onload = function() {
      if (this.status == 200) {
        // The decode() method takes a DataView as a parameter, which is a wrapper on top of the ArrayBuffer.
        var dataView = new DataView(this.response);
        // The TextDecoder interface is documented at http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-textdecoder
        var decoder = new TextDecoder(encoding);
        var decodedString = decoder.decode(dataView);
        // Add the decoded file's text to the <pre> element on the page.
        document.querySelector('#results').textContent += decodedString + '\n';
      } else {
        console.error('Error while requesting', file, this);
      }
    };
    xhr.send();
  }
</script>

基于gengkev的回答，我创建了两种方法的函数，因为BlobBuilder可以处理String和ArrayBuffer:

function string2ArrayBuffer(string, callback) {
    var bb = new BlobBuilder();
    bb.append(string);
    var f = new FileReader();
    f.onload = function(e) {
        callback(e.target.result);
    }
    f.readAsArrayBuffer(bb.getBlob());
}

and

function arrayBuffer2String(buf, callback) {
    var bb = new BlobBuilder();
    bb.append(buf);
    var f = new FileReader();
    f.onload = function(e) {
        callback(e.target.result)
    }
    f.readAsText(bb.getBlob());
}

一个简单的测试:

string2ArrayBuffer("abc",
    function (buf) {
        var uInt8 = new Uint8Array(buf);
        console.log(uInt8); // Returns `Uint8Array { 0=97, 1=98, 2=99}`

        arrayBuffer2String(buf, 
            function (string) {
                console.log(string); // returns "abc"
            }
        )
    }
)