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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.markdown b/doc/api/crypto.markdown index dd31ae7ac3..46d1e5f3b0 100644 --- a/doc/api/crypto.markdown +++ b/doc/api/crypto.markdown @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ called. Multiple calls will cause an error to be thrown. Updates the hash content with the given `data`, the encoding of which is given in `input_encoding` and can be `'utf8'`, `'ascii'` or `'binary'`. If `encoding` is not provided, and the `data` is a string, an -encoding of `'binary'` is enforced. If `data` is a [`Buffer`][] then +encoding of `'utf8'` is enforced. If `data` is a [`Buffer`][] then `input_encoding` is ignored. This can be called many times with new data as it is streamed. @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ or [buffers][`Buffer`]. The default value is `'buffer'`, which makes methods default to [`Buffer`][] objects. The `crypto.DEFAULT_ENCODING` mechanism is provided for backwards compatibility -with legacy programs that expect `'binary'` to be the default encoding. +with legacy programs that expect `'utf8'` to be the default encoding. New applications should expect the default to be `'buffer'`. This property may become deprecated in a future Node.js release. |