Stashing it away in internal/buffer so that it can't be used in
userland, but can still be used in internals.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16391
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Switch to using the more efficient module.exports = {}
where possible.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11406
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Allow all methods on `buffer` and `Buffer` to take `Uint8Array`
arguments where it makes sense. On the native side, there is
effectively no difference, and as a bonus the `isUint8Array`
check is faster than `instanceof Buffer`.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10236
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Add buffer.transcode(source, from, to) method. Primarily uses ICU
to transcode a buffer's content from one of Node.js' supported
encodings to another.
Originally part of a proposal to add a new unicode module. Decided
to refactor the approach towrds individual PRs without a new module.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8075
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9038
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
