Edit binary encoding docs

15 years ago · 0499618c2b
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/doc/api.markdown
+++ b/doc/api.markdown
@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ Binary (`'binary'`).

 * `'ascii'` - for 7 bit ASCII data only.  This encoding method is very fast, and will
 strip the high bit if set.
-    
-* `'binary'` - for 8 bit binary data such as images.

 * `'utf8'` - Unicode characters.  Many web pages and other document formats use UTF-8.

+* `'binary'` - A legacy encoding. Used to store raw binary data in a string
+by only using the first 8 bits of every character. Don't use this.
+

 ### new Buffer(size)