From 0499618c2bc013bb36332c7a72561aefe58279f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Dahl Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:51:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Edit binary encoding docs --- doc/api.markdown | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/api.markdown b/doc/api.markdown index cfa90fb992..b412cf997e 100644 --- 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)