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13 changes: 6 additions & 7 deletions doc/api/stream.md
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Expand Up @@ -1500,13 +1500,12 @@ buffered. When the `callback` is invoked, the stream might emit a [`'drain'`][]
event. If a stream implementation is capable of processing multiple chunks of
data at once, the `writable._writev()` method should be implemented.

If the `decodeStrings` property is set in the constructor options, then
`chunk` may be a string rather than a Buffer, and `encoding` will
indicate the character encoding of the string. This is to support
implementations that have an optimized handling for certain string
data encodings. If the `decodeStrings` property is explicitly set to `false`,
the `encoding` argument can be safely ignored, and `chunk` will remain the same
object that is passed to `.write()`.
If the `decodeStrings` property is explicitly set to `false` in the constructor
options, then `chunk` will remain the same object that is passed to `.write()`,
and may be a string rather than a `Buffer`. This is to support implementations
that have an optimized handling for certain string data encodings. In that case,
the `encoding` argument will indicate the character encoding of the string.
Otherwise, the `encoding` argument can be safely ignored.

The `writable._write()` method is prefixed with an underscore because it is
internal to the class that defines it, and should never be called directly by
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