it's just a byte value, which when i print it out, it is shown as a signed 
number.  

from observation, anything negative appears to transform into two bytes, 
which are also negative.  -108 (0x94) -> -62 -108  (0xc294), -2 (0xfe) -> 
-61 -66 (0xc3be).  

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:23:23 AM UTC-7, Aria Stewart wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 22, 02014, at 20:29, Mike Kobyakov <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> i have two services (one in node, one in java) sharing objects, which are 
> compressed and, therefore, binary. 
>
> nodejs does a str.toString('binary') on the compressed buffer.  this 
> changes the buffer as in the following example.
>
> enc   [ -108 1 72 116 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 116 104 101 32 115 116 
> 114 105 110 103 32 70 19 0 70 18 0 -2 37 0 114 37 0 ]
>
> enc.toString('binary')   [ -62 -108 1 72 116 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 116 
> 104 101 32 115 116 114 105 110 103 32 70 19 0 70 18 0 -61 -66 37 0 114 37 0 
> ]
>
> unfortunately, it appears that negative bytes become two negative bytes in 
> 'binary' encoding, and i cannot find a java charset that can translate the 
> latter into the former.
>
>
> Wait, “Negative bytes”?!
>
> That’s not a thing node does. Where is this object coming from and what 
> kind is it?
>
>

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