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Expand Up @@ -209,13 +209,13 @@ The character encodings currently supported by Node.js include:
```js
Buffer.from('1ag', 'hex');
// Prints <Buffer 1a>, data truncated when first non-hexadecimal value
// ('g') encountered
// ('g') encountered.

Buffer.from('1a7g', 'hex');
// Prints <Buffer 1a>, data truncated when data ends in single digit ('7').

Buffer.from('1634', 'hex');
// Prints <Buffer 16 34>, fully qualified hexadecimal data
// Prints <Buffer 16 34>, all data represented.
```

Modern Web browsers follow the [WHATWG Encoding Standard][] which aliases
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