Encoding API
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The Encoding API provides a mechanism for handling text in various character encodings, including legacy non-UTF-8 encodings.
The API provides four interfaces: TextDecoder
, TextEncoder
, TextDecoderStream
and TextEncoderStream
.
Interfaces
Specifications
Specification |
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Encoding # interface-textdecoder |
Encoding # interface-textencoder |
Encoding # interface-textencoderstream |
Encoding # interface-textdecoderstream |
Browser compatibility
api.TextDecoder
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TextDecoder | ||||||||||||||
TextDecoder() constructor | ||||||||||||||
decode | ||||||||||||||
encoding | ||||||||||||||
fatal | ||||||||||||||
ignoreBOM | ||||||||||||||
Available in workers |
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- Full support
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- Partial support
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api.TextEncoder
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TextEncoder | ||||||||||||||
TextEncoder() constructor | ||||||||||||||
encode | ||||||||||||||
encodeInto | ||||||||||||||
encoding | ||||||||||||||
Available in workers |
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api.TextEncoderStream
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TextEncoderStream | ||||||||||||||
TextEncoderStream() constructor | ||||||||||||||
encoding | ||||||||||||||
readable | ||||||||||||||
writable |
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api.TextDecoderStream
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- Full support
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- Partial support
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See also
- Encoding API Encodings - Encodings that must be supported for decoding text.
- A polyfill allowing to use this interface in browsers that don't support it