diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index 354fed25d58..66832d1eddf 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -169,8 +169,7 @@ The character encodings currently supported by Node.js include:
   (as defined by the IANA in [RFC1345](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1345),
   page 63, to be the Latin-1 supplement block and C0/C1 control codes).
 
-* `'binary'` - (deprecated) A way of encoding the buffer into a one-byte
-  (`latin1`) encoded string.
+* `'binary'` - Alias for `latin1`.
 
 * `'hex'` - Encode each byte as two hexadecimal characters.
 
diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index da514787a3f..0cf16a12dff 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -1395,13 +1395,6 @@ ssize_t DecodeBytes(Isolate* isolate,
                     enum encoding encoding) {
   HandleScope scope(isolate);
 
-  if (val->IsArray()) {
-    fprintf(stderr, "'raw' encoding (array of integers) has been removed. "
-                    "Use 'latin1'.\n");
-    UNREACHABLE();
-    return -1;
-  }
-
   return StringBytes::Size(isolate, val, encoding);
 }