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| author | Ryan <ry@tinyclouds.org> | 2009-09-11 21:04:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Ryan <ry@tinyclouds.org> | 2009-09-11 21:04:02 +0200 |
| commit | 5629fd574a01f2d932409b4008593cbf7d77fa74 (patch) | |
| tree | fc6f7fb138cfeec43f5e4b8ecdfab607cc44d8e5 /doc/api.txt | |
| parent | d03c7e38e9dc6f02155617f10daf62e91a35bc35 (diff) | |
| download | node-new-5629fd574a01f2d932409b4008593cbf7d77fa74.tar.gz | |
Add doc note about 'raws' encoding
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diff --git a/doc/api.txt b/doc/api.txt index b48344c52a..81595dcd07 100644 --- a/doc/api.txt +++ b/doc/api.txt @@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ == API -Node supports 3 byte-string encodings: ASCII (+"ascii"+), UTF-8 (+"utf8"+), -and raw binary (+"raw"+). It uses strings to represent ASCII and UTF-8 -encoded data. For the moment, arrays of integers are used to represent raw -binary data--this representation is rather inefficient. This will -change in the future, when -http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=270[V8 supports Blob objects]. +Node supports 4 byte-string encodings. ASCII (+"ascii"+), UTF-8 (+"utf8"+) +both use the string object, obviously. Then two "raw binary" encodings - one +uses an array of integers (+"raw"+) and the other uses a string (+"raws"+). +Neither raw encodings are perfect and thier implemenations are rather +inefficient. Hopefully the raw encoding situation will improve in the +future. Unless otherwise noted, functions are all asynchronous and do not block execution. |