diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index b551f72ad98029..99c9c79d71d74d 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -149,10 +149,8 @@ changes:
     description: Removed the deprecated `raw` and `raws` encodings.
 -->
 
-`Buffer` instances are commonly used to represent sequences of encoded characters
-such as UTF-8, UCS2, Base64, or even Hex-encoded data. It is possible to
-convert back and forth between `Buffer` instances and ordinary JavaScript strings
-by using an explicit character encoding.
+When string data is stored in or extracted out of a `Buffer` instance, a
+character encoding may be specified.
 
 ```js
 const buf = Buffer.from('hello world', 'ascii');
@@ -161,6 +159,11 @@ console.log(buf.toString('hex'));
 // Prints: 68656c6c6f20776f726c64
 console.log(buf.toString('base64'));
 // Prints: aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=
+
+console.log(Buffer.from('fhqwhgads', 'ascii'));
+// Prints: <Buffer 66 68 71 77 68 67 61 64 73>
+console.log(Buffer.from('fhqwhgads', 'ucs2'));
+// Prints: <Buffer 66 00 68 00 71 00 77 00 68 00 67 00 61 00 64 00 73 00>
 ```
 
 The character encodings currently supported by Node.js include: