TextDecoder: fatal property
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Thefatal read-only property of theTextDecoder interface is aBoolean indicating whether the error mode is fatal.
If the property istrue, then a decoder will throw aTypeError if it encounters malformed data while decoding.Iffalse, the decoder will substitute the invalid data with the replacement characterU+FFFD (�).The value of the property is set in thefatal argument to the decoder's constructor.
Value
A boolean which will betrue if the error mode is set tofatal.Otherwise, it will befalse, indicating that the error mode isreplacement.
Specifications
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| Encoding # ref-for-dom-textdecoder-fatal① |