diff --git a/src/libstd/ffi/os_str.rs b/src/libstd/ffi/os_str.rs
index 828972187eefc..766142fb57f8c 100644
--- a/src/libstd/ffi/os_str.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/ffi/os_str.rs
@@ -536,17 +536,42 @@ impl OsStr {
     ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
-    /// Calling `to_string_lossy` on an `OsStr` with valid unicode:
+    /// Calling `to_string_lossy` on an `OsStr` with invalid unicode:
     ///
     /// ```
-    /// use std::ffi::OsStr;
-    ///
-    /// let os_str = OsStr::new("foo");
-    /// assert_eq!(os_str.to_string_lossy(), "foo");
+    /// // Note, due to differences in how Unix and Windows represent strings,
+    /// // we are forced to complicate this example, setting up example `OsStr`s
+    /// // with different source data and via different platform extensions.
+    /// // Understand that in reality you could end up with such example invalid
+    /// // sequences simply through collecting user command line arguments, for
+    /// // example.
+    ///
+    /// #[cfg(any(unix, target_os = "redox"))] {
+    ///     use std::ffi::OsStr;
+    ///     use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+    ///
+    ///     // Here, the values 0x66 and 0x6f correspond to 'f' and 'o'
+    ///     // respectively. The value 0x80 is a lone continuation byte, invalid
+    ///     // in a UTF-8 sequence.
+    ///     let source = [0x66, 0x6f, 0x80, 0x6f];
+    ///     let os_str = OsStr::from_bytes(&source[..]);
+    ///
+    ///     assert_eq!(os_str.to_string_lossy(), "fo�o");
+    /// }
+    /// #[cfg(windows)] {
+    ///     use std::ffi::OsString;
+    ///     use std::os::windows::prelude::*;
+    ///
+    ///     // Here the values 0x0066 and 0x006f correspond to 'f' and 'o'
+    ///     // respectively. The value 0xD800 is a lone surrogate half, invalid
+    ///     // in a UTF-16 sequence.
+    ///     let source = [0x0066, 0x006f, 0xD800, 0x006f];
+    ///     let os_string = OsString::from_wide(&source[..]);
+    ///     let os_str = os_string.as_os_str();
+    ///
+    ///     assert_eq!(os_str.to_string_lossy(), "fo�o");
+    /// }
     /// ```
-    ///
-    /// Had `os_str` contained invalid unicode, the `to_string_lossy` call might
-    /// have returned `"fo�"`.
     #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
     pub fn to_string_lossy(&self) -> Cow<str> {
         self.inner.to_string_lossy()