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method Buffer.isEncoding
import { Buffer } from "https://deno.land/std@0.136.0/node/_buffer.d.ts";

Returns true if encoding is the name of a supported character encoding, or false otherwise.

import { Buffer } from 'buffer';

console.log(Buffer.isEncoding('utf8'));
// Prints: true

console.log(Buffer.isEncoding('hex'));
// Prints: true

console.log(Buffer.isEncoding('utf/8'));
// Prints: false

console.log(Buffer.isEncoding(''));
// Prints: false

Parameters

encoding: string

A character encoding name to check.

Returns

boolean