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Interface TextDecoder

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A decoder for a specific method, that is a specific character encoding, like utf-8, iso-8859-2, koi8, cp1261, gbk, etc. A decoder takes a stream of bytes as input and emits a stream of code points. For a more scalable, non-native library, see StringView – a C-like representation of strings based on typed arrays.

Hierarchy

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Properties

Methods

Properties

encoding

encoding: string

Returns encoding's name, lowercased.

fatal

fatal: boolean

Returns true if error mode is "fatal", and false otherwise.

ignoreBOM

ignoreBOM: boolean

Returns true if ignore BOM flag is set, and false otherwise.

Methods

decode

  • Returns the result of running encoding's decoder. The method can be invoked zero or more times with options's stream set to true, and then once without options's stream (or set to false), to process a fragmented stream. If the invocation without options's stream (or set to false) has no input, it's clearest to omit both arguments.

    var string = "", decoder = new TextDecoder(encoding), buffer;
    while(buffer = next_chunk()) {
      string += decoder.decode(buffer, {stream:true});
    }
    string += decoder.decode(); // end-of-stream

    If the error mode is "fatal" and encoding's decoder returns error, throws a TypeError.

    Parameters

    Returns string

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