Text encoding and decoding
Widely available since 2022-07-15
The TextEncoder API transforms a stream of code points into a byte stream with UTF-8 encoding, and TextDecoder does the reverse.
Learning resources on MDN
Browser support (view on caniuse.com)
- Chrome 38 Released on 2014-10-07
- Chrome Android 38 Released on 2014-10-08
- Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
- Firefox 19 Released on 2013-02-19
- Firefox for Android 19 Released on 2013-02-19
- Safari 10.1 Released on 2017-03-27
- Safari on iOS 10.3 Released on 2017-03-27
Specifications
- Encoding Standard, from Encoding Workstream (WHATWG).