TextDecoderStream: fatal property
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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 fatal read-only property of the TextDecoderStream interface is a boolean indicating if the error mode of the TextDecoderStream object is set to fatal.
If the property is true then a decoder will throw a TypeError if it encounters malformed data while decoding.
If false the decoder will substitute the invalid data with the replacement character U+FFFD (�).
The value of the property is set in the TextDecoderStream() constructor.
Value
A boolean which will return true if the error mode is set to "fatal".
Otherwise it returns false, indicating that the error mode is "replacement".
Examples
stream = new TextDecoderStream();
console.log(stream.fatal); // returns false
Specifications
| Specification |
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| Encoding # dom-textdecoder-fatal |