diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index 8311504c883..d9a48eebbcb 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ const buf4 = Buffer.from([1, 2, 3]);
 const buf5 = Buffer.from('tést');
 
 // Creates a Buffer containing Latin-1 bytes [0x74, 0xe9, 0x73, 0x74].
-const buf6 = Buffer.from('tést', 'latin-1');
+const buf6 = Buffer.from('tést', 'latin1');
 ```
 
 ## `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`