From 9428304d4a829ae9f7bb49c21faaed1ea3289c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan-Philip Gehrcke <jp@opstrace.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:30:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Buffer.toString(): add note about invalid data

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30706
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/buffer.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index a97ab6c2a6314b..c5b7bf15047177 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -2162,6 +2162,8 @@ added: v0.1.90
 
 Decodes `buf` to a string according to the specified character encoding in
 `encoding`. `start` and `end` may be passed to decode only a subset of `buf`.
+If a byte sequence in the input is not valid in the given `encoding` then
+it is replaced with the replacement character `U+FFFD`.
 
 The maximum length of a string instance (in UTF-16 code units) is available
 as [`buffer.constants.MAX_STRING_LENGTH`][].