Baseline Widely available
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The TextDecoder.decode()
method returns a string containing text decoded from the buffer passed as a parameter.
The decoding method is defined in the current TextDecoder
object. This includes the expected encoding of the data, and how decoding errors are handled.
decode()
decode(buffer)
decode(buffer, options)
Parameters
buffer
Optional
An ArrayBuffer
, a TypedArray
, or a DataView
object containing the encoded text to decode.
options
Optional
An object with the property:
stream
A boolean flag indicating whether additional data will follow in subsequent calls to decode()
. Set to true
if processing the data in chunks, and false
for the final chunk or if the data is not chunked. It defaults to false
.
TypeError
Thrown if there is a decoding error when the property TextDecoder.fatal
is true
.
A string.
ExamplesThis example encodes and decodes the euro symbol, â¬.
HTML<p>Encoded value: <span id="encoded-value"></span></p>
<p>Decoded value: <span id="decoded-value"></span></p>
JavaScript
const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const array = encoder.encode("â¬"); // Uint8Array(3) [226, 130, 172]
document.getElementById("encoded-value").textContent = array;
const decoder = new TextDecoder();
const str = decoder.decode(array); // String "â¬"
document.getElementById("decoded-value").textContent = str;
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HTML:
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| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
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