From d09a0b2170c3f93319a5ce0984f57f12794617ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathalie Casati <nathalie.casati@chuv.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:56:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: do not convert u8a to string if it's already a string

---
 html5/js/lib/rencode.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/html5/js/lib/rencode.js b/html5/js/lib/rencode.js
index 23e82807..ac6321fb 100644
--- a/html5/js/lib/rencode.js
+++ b/html5/js/lib/rencode.js
@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ function rdecode_string(dec) {
 	return utf8ByteArrayToString(bytes)
 }
 function Uint8ToString(u8a){
+	if (typeof u8a == "string") {
+		return u8a;
+	}
+	
 	const CHUNK_SZ = 0x8000;
 	const c = [];
 	for (let i=0; i < u8a.length; i+=CHUNK_SZ) {