Readings: Buffers

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Jacob-Wendt edited this page Jul 1, 2019 · 1 revision

Readings: Buffers

The Buffer class was introduced as part of the Node.js API to make it possible to manipulate or interact with streams of binary data.

Character Sets

Character Sets are already defined rules of what exact number represents each character.
There are different definitions of these rules.The very popular ones include Unicode and ASCII.
JavaScript plays really well with Unicode Character Sets.

Character Encoding

There are rules that define how that number should be represented in binaries. This is called Character Encoding.
One of the definitions for Character Encoding is the UTF-8
UTF-8 states that characters should be encoded in bytes.