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doc: document base64url encoding support

Documents that creating a buffer from base64 encoded string
transparently supports "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" base64url
encoding.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5243
Reviewed-By: Ben Noorhduis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <inglor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Alejandro Oviedo <alejandro.oviedo.g@gmail.com>
v4.x
Tristan Slominski 9 years ago
committed by Myles Borins
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@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ The character encodings currently supported by Node.js include:
* `'ucs2'` - Alias of `'utf16le'`.
* `'base64'` - Base64 string encoding.
* `'base64'` - Base64 string encoding. When creating a buffer from a string,
this encoding will also correctly accept "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" as
specified in [RFC 4648, Section 5].
* `'binary'` - A way of encoding the buffer into a one-byte (`latin-1`)
encoded string. The string `'latin-1'` is not supported. Instead, pass
@ -1364,3 +1366,4 @@ has observed undue memory retention in their applications.
[`String.prototype.length`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/length
[`util.inspect()`]: util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options
[iterator]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Iteration_protocols
[RFC 4648, Section 5]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-5

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