TextDecoderStream: encoding property
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The encoding
read-only property of the TextDecoderStream
interface returns a string containing the name of the encoding algorithm used by the specific decoder.
The encoding is set by the constructor label
parameter, and defaults to utf-8
.
Value
A string containing the lower-cased ASCII name of the encoding format.
The allowed values are the same as those listed in TextDecoder.encoding
(the labels in Encoding API Encodings).
Examples
Returning the value of encoding
from a TextDecoderStream
.
js
stream = new TextDecoderStream();
console.log(stream.encoding); // returns the default "utf-8"
Specifications
Specification |
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Encoding Standard # dom-textdecoder-encoding |
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