diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/index.d.ts b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for text-encoding-utf-8 1.0
+// Project: https://github.com/arv/text-encoding-utf-8
+// Definitions by: Paul Taylor <https://github.com/trxcllnt>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare namespace TextEncoding {
+    interface TextDecoderOptions {
+        fatal?: boolean;
+        ignoreBOM?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecodeOptions {
+        stream?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoderOptions {
+        NONSTANDARD_allowLegacyEncoding?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecoder {
+        encoding: string;
+        fatal: boolean;
+        ignoreBOM: boolean;
+        decode(input?: ArrayBuffer | ArrayBufferView, options?: TextDecodeOptions): string;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoder {
+        encoding: string;
+        encode(input?: string, options?: TextEncodeOptions): Uint8Array;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncodeOptions {
+        stream?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoderStatic {
+        (utfLabel?: string, options?: TextEncoderOptions): TextEncoder;
+        new (utfLabel?: string, options?: TextEncoderOptions): TextEncoder;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecoderStatic {
+        (label?: string, options?: TextDecoderOptions): TextDecoder;
+        new (label?: string, options?: TextDecoderOptions): TextDecoder;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncodingStatic {
+        TextEncoder: TextEncoderStatic;
+        TextDecoder: TextDecoderStatic;
+    }
+}
+
+declare var TextDecoder: TextEncoding.TextDecoderStatic;
+
+declare var TextEncoder: TextEncoding.TextEncoderStatic;
+
+declare var TextEncoding: TextEncoding.TextEncodingStatic;
diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts
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+function test_encoder() {
+    const text = "plain text";
+    let uint8array: Uint8Array;
+
+    // constructor
+    uint8array = new TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    uint8array = new TextEncoder('utf-8').encode(text);
+
+    uint8array = TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    uint8array = TextEncoder('utf-8').encode(text);
+
+    // attributes
+    const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+    encoder.encoding = 'utf-8';
+    const encoding: string = encoder.encoding;
+
+    // methods
+    encoder.encode();
+    encoder.encode(text);
+}
+
+function test_decoder() {
+    let text = "plain text";
+    const uint8array: Uint8Array = TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    const arrayBuffer: ArrayBuffer = uint8array.buffer;
+
+    // constructor
+    text = new TextDecoder().decode(uint8array);
+    text = new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(uint8array);
+
+    text = TextDecoder().decode(uint8array);
+    text = TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(uint8array);
+
+    // attributes
+    const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+
+    decoder.encoding = 'utf-8';
+    const encoding: string = decoder.encoding;
+
+    decoder.fatal = true;
+    const fatal: boolean = decoder.fatal;
+
+    decoder.ignoreBOM = true;
+    const ignoreBOM: boolean = decoder.ignoreBOM;
+
+    // methods
+    decoder.decode();
+    decoder.decode(uint8array);
+    decoder.decode(arrayBuffer);
+}
diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tsconfig.json b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tslint.json b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}