NDEFRecord: encoding property

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The encoding property of the NDEFRecord interface returns the encoding of a textual payload, or null otherwise.

Value

A string which can be one of the following: "utf-8", "utf-16", "utf-16le", or "utf-16be".

Specification
Web NFC # dom-ndefrecord-encoding

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`encoding` Experimental	Chrome – No support Chrome footnote No support	Edge – No support Edge footnote No support	Firefox – No support Firefox footnote No support	Opera – No support Opera footnote No support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – No support Firefox for Android footnote No support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 63 (Release date: 2021-04-16) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – No support Safari on iOS footnote No support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 15 (Release date: 2021-08-13) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – No support WebView on iOS footnote No support

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