feat: eliminate Buffer polyfill for browser builds

[MathiasWP]

Summary

• Adds two small browser-specific shim files (lib/browser-buffer.js and lib/browser-string-decoder.js) that replace safer-buffer and string_decoder in browser bundles
• Uses the package.json "browser" field so bundlers (webpack, browserify, etc.) automatically substitute them — zero changes to any existing codec file
• Reduces browser bundle size by ~180KB gzipped by eliminating the need for a full Buffer polyfill

How it works

lib/browser-buffer.js is a minimal BufferShim class that extends Uint8Array and implements only the Buffer methods iconv-lite actually uses, built on native browser APIs:

• TextEncoder / TextDecoder for UTF-8
• atob() / btoa() for base64
• String.fromCharCode() for ascii/binary/ucs2
• Manual byte operations for readUInt16LE, writeUInt32LE/BE

lib/browser-string-decoder.js is a minimal StringDecoder replacement using TextDecoder with {stream: true} for proper chunk boundary handling.

Since BufferShim extends Uint8Array, the return value of encode() is a standard Uint8Array in browsers — no polyfills needed, fully compatible with all web APIs (fetch, WebSocket, FileReader, etc.).

What didn't change

• No codec files modified (sbcs-codec.js, dbcs-codec.js, utf16.js, utf32.js, utf7.js, internal.js)
• No changes to lib/index.js, lib/bom-handling.js, or encoding data files
• Node.js behavior is completely unaffected (all 318 tests pass)

Browser compatibility

Requires ES2015+ (class extends Uint8Array), which covers all modern browsers: Chrome 58+, Firefox 52+, Safari 10.1+, Edge 15+.

Test plan

• All 318 existing Node.js tests pass (npm test)
• Verified all encoding types work with shims: UTF-8, SBCS (win1251, latin1), DBCS (shiftjis, gbk), UTF-16 LE/BE, UTF-32 LE/BE, UTF-7, UTF-7-IMAP, CESU-8, binary, BOM handling
• Verified all encodings roundtrip correctly via Uint8Array decode path
• Webpack browser test suite (npm run test:webpack) — could not run locally due to Puppeteer/arm64 incompatibility, needs CI verification

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