doc: add note about Buffer octets integer coercion

PR-URL: #27030 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Beth Griggs <[email protected]>
nodejs · Apr 9, 2019 · eeee636 · eeee636
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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ streams in TCP streams, file system operations, and other contexts.
 With [`TypedArray`] now available, the `Buffer` class implements the
 [`Uint8Array`] API in a manner that is more optimized and suitable for Node.js.
 
-Instances of the `Buffer` class are similar to arrays of integers but
+Instances of the `Buffer` class are similar to arrays of integers from `0` to
+`255` (other integers are coerced to this range by `& 255` operation) but
 correspond to fixed-sized, raw memory allocations outside the V8 heap.
 The size of the `Buffer` is established when it is created and cannot be
 changed.