TextDecoder: ignoreBOM property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The ignoreBOM read-only property of the TextDecoder interface is a Boolean indicating whether the byte order mark will be included in the output or skipped over. The value of the property is set in the ignoreBOM argument to the decoder's constructor.
Value
true if the byte order mark will be included in the decoded text; false if it will be skipped over when decoding and omitted.
Specifications
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| Encoding # ref-for-dom-textdecoder-ignorebom① |