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Expand Up @@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ potentially mangled if you simply pulled the Buffers directly and
called [`buf.toString(encoding)`][] on them. If you want to read the data
as strings, always use this method.

Also you can disable any encoding at all with `readable.setEncoding(null)`.
This approach is very useful if you deal with binary data or with large
multi-byte strings spread out over multiple chunks.

```js
var readable = getReadableStreamSomehow();
readable.setEncoding('utf8');
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