TextDecoder: fatal property

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The fatal read-only property of the TextDecoder interface is a Boolean indicating whether the error mode is 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 fatal argument to the decoder’s constructor.

Value

A boolean which will be true if the error mode is set to fatal. Otherwise, it will be false, indicating that the error mode is replacement.

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