This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2022.
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.
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).
Returning the value of encoding from a TextDecoderStream.
stream = new TextDecoderStream(); console.log(stream.encoding); // returns the default "utf-8"
| Specification |
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| Encoding> # dom-textdecoder-encoding> |
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
encoding |
71 | 79 | 105 | 58 | 14.1 | 71 | 105 | 50 | 14.5 | 10.0 | 71 | 14.5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoderStream/encoding