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.