What is Encoding API

Mechanism for handling text in various character encodings, including legacy non-UTF-8 encodings.

The API provides four interfaces: TextDecoder, TextEncoder, TextDecoderStream and TextEncoderStream.

TextDecoderStream

Streaming equivalent of TextDecoder.

• converts a stream of text in a binary encoding, such as UTF-8 etc., to a stream of strings.

const response = await fetch("https://example.com");

const stream = response.body.pipeThrough(new TextDecoderStream());