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diff --git a/src/liballoc/string.rs b/src/liballoc/string.rs index 8cecc59127e..46b96df1eab 100644 --- a/src/liballoc/string.rs +++ b/src/liballoc/string.rs @@ -622,6 +622,13 @@ impl String { /// Decode a UTF-16 encoded slice `v` into a `String`, replacing /// invalid data with the replacement character (U+FFFD). /// + /// Unlike [`from_utf8_lossy`] which returns a [`Cow<'a, str>`], + /// `from_utf16_lossy` returns a `String` since the UTF-16 to UTF-8 + /// conversion requires a memory allocation. + /// + /// [`from_utf8_lossy`]: #method.from_utf8_lossy + /// [`Cow<'a, str>`]: ../borrow/enum.Cow.html + /// /// # Examples /// /// Basic usage: |