ASCII as default encoding!?

[k]

I'm shocked that response.write uses ASCII as the default encoding,
and actually enforces 7-bitness. To me this seems to be far worse
default than either utf8 (which is superset of ASCII after all) or
even encoding-ignorant 8-bit binary.

I'm wondering what's the reason for this default. Is it bug, omission?
A plan to break everyone's applications so badly that they'll never
forget to specify encoding explicitly, everywhere, every time?

[Scott González]

I think the decision was made based on speed. This is straight from the docs:

Node supports 3 string encodings. UTF-8 ("utf8"), ASCII ("ascii"), and Binary ("binary"). "ascii" and "binary" only look at the first 8 bits of the 16bit JavaScript string characters. Both are relatively fast—use them if you can. "utf8" is slower and should be avoided when possible.

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[CC]

Why not utf-16 in the core like php 6 ?

After all, there is the default and the option. Which would be the
default, which would be the option. Php sends content so utf is the
default, but Node ?

In addition, their is the content and also the environnement. I'm
French so I write errors/logs in my langage, my urxvt terminal uses
unicode and that works fine with "coucou éé
@@34567890'(-è_çà'(-È_ÇÀ?/§%µ*tout a planté".

Slower, 3% ?

2010/2/22 Scott González <scott.g...@gmail.com>:

[Joran Greef]

Would also prefer UTF8 as the default encoding since that is the most
common use-case in my code. On the occasion where it is known that the
data is ASCII, I would prefer to specify that explicitly.

[Rob Crowther]

I concur. If UTF-8 (or any Unicode variant) is slow, I think we should
focus on improving the performance, rather than having our apps patch
in support for what is pretty much a universal standard now.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Joran Greef <joran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would also prefer UTF-8 encoding to be the default since that is the
> option used throughout my code. I would rather specify ASCII
> explicitly since it's not the common use-case that my application's
> data is solely ASCII.

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[Alexander Teinum]

Yup, another vote here for UTF-8.

Here is some statistics from Google on its usage:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html

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