fix: convert non-latin characters in IE (#157)

src/util/string.js

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export const uint8ToUtf8 = (uintArray) =>
+  decodeURIComponent(escape(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, uintArray)));

src/vtt-segment-loader.js

@@ -6,14 +6,11 @@ import videojs from 'video.js';
 import window from 'global/window';
 import { removeCuesFromTrack } from './mse/remove-cues-from-track';
 import { initSegmentId } from './bin-utils';
+import { uint8ToUtf8 } from './util/string';
 
 const VTT_LINE_TERMINATORS =
   new Uint8Array('\n\n'.split('').map(char => char.charCodeAt(0)));
 
-const uintToString = function(uintArray) {
-  return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, uintArray);
-};
-
 /**
  * An object that manages segment loading and appending.
  *
@@ -334,7 +331,7 @@ export default class VTTSegmentLoader extends SegmentLoader {
       let mapData = segmentInfo.segment.map.bytes;
 
       if (decodeBytesToString) {
-        mapData = uintToString(mapData);
+        mapData = uint8ToUtf8(mapData);
       }
 
       parser.parse(mapData);
@@ -343,7 +340,7 @@ export default class VTTSegmentLoader extends SegmentLoader {
     let segmentData = segmentInfo.bytes;
 
     if (decodeBytesToString) {
-      segmentData = uintToString(segmentData);
+      segmentData = uint8ToUtf8(segmentData);
     }
 
     parser.parse(segmentData);

test/util/string.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import QUnit from 'qunit';
+import { uint8ToUtf8 } from '../../src/util/string';
+
+QUnit.module('uint8ToUtf8');
+
+QUnit.test('converts beyond Latin-1 characters', function(assert) {
+  const expected = 'シ';
+  const actual = uint8ToUtf8(new Uint8Array([227, 130, 183]));
+
+  assert.deepEqual(actual, expected);
+});