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Text encoding and decoding

The TextEncoder API transforms a stream of code points into a byte stream with UTF-8 encoding, and TextDecoder does the reverse.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2022-07-15)

MDN documentation

Specifications

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

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