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doc: list encodings supported by buffer.transcode #22263

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/buffer.md
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Expand Up @@ -2508,6 +2508,9 @@ encoding to another. Returns a new `Buffer` instance.
Throws if the `fromEnc` or `toEnc` specify invalid character encodings or if
conversion from `fromEnc` to `toEnc` is not permitted.

Encodings supported by `buffer.transcode()` are: `'ascii'`, `'utf8'`,
`'utf16le'`, `'ucs2'`, `'latin1'`, and `'binary'`.

The transcoding process will use substitution characters if a given byte
sequence cannot be adequately represented in the target encoding. For instance:

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