happypdf / utf16Decode

Function: utf16Decode()

function utf16Decode(input, byteOrderMark?): string;

Defined in: src/utils/unicode.ts:283

Decodes a Uint8Array of data to a string using UTF-16.

Note that this function attempts to recover from erronous input by inserting the replacement character (�) to mark invalid code points and surrogate pairs.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default value	Description
input	Uint8Array	undefined	A Uint8Array containing UTF-16 encoded data
byteOrderMark	boolean	true	Whether or not a byte order marker (BOM) should be read at the start of the encoding. (default true)

Returns

string

The decoded string.