doc: simplify util.TextDecoder example

This simplifies the example and makes it runnable. (The current example has a magic function.) (This also removes an assignment in a condition which will be flagged if we enable ESLint's no-cond-assign rule.) PR-URL: #41574 Reviewed-By: Mestery <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
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@@ -1185,13 +1185,9 @@ added: v8.3.0
 An implementation of the [WHATWG Encoding Standard][] `TextDecoder` API.
 
 ```js
-const decoder = new TextDecoder('shift_jis');
-let string = '';
-let buffer;
-while (buffer = getNextChunkSomehow()) {
-  string += decoder.decode(buffer, { stream: true });
-}
-string += decoder.decode(); // end-of-stream
+const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+const u8arr = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
+console.log(decoder.decode(u8arr)); // Hello
 ```
 
 ### WHATWG supported encodings