diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
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--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
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@@ -197,6 +197,38 @@ the WHATWG specification it is possible that the server actually returned
 `'win-1252'`-encoded data, and using `'latin1'` encoding may incorrectly decode
 the characters.
 
+### Evaluating legal code points for '`utf-8'` encoding
+
+Byte sequences that do not have corresponding UTF-16 encodings and non-legal
+Unicode values, along with their UTF-8 counterparts must be treated as
+invalid byte sequences.
+
+For cases regarding operations other than employing backward compatibility
+for 7-bit (and [extended 8-bit]((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description))
+in rare cases) `'ascii'` data, and the valid [`UTF-8` code units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Codepage_layout),
+the replacement character (`�`) is returned,
+and no exception will be thrown.
+
+A `U+FFFD` replacement value
+(representing the aforementioned replacement character) will be returned
+in case of decoding errors (invalid unicode scalar values).
+
+```js
+// Assuming an invalid byte sequence
+const buf = Buffer.from([237, 166, 164]);
+
+const buf_str = buf.toString('utf-8');
+
+console.log(buf_str);
+// Prints: '�'
+
+console.log(buf.byteLength(buf_str));
+// Prints: 3
+
+console.log(buf.codePointAt(0).toString(16));
+// Prints: 'fffd'
+```
+
 ## Buffers and TypedArray
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