From 9cee8b1b621f2803bbdd7209aea74c918081eaad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:56:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: alias toLocaleString to toString

Make Buffer.prototype.toLocaleString an alias of Buffer.prototype.toString
so that the output is actually useful.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8147
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8148
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
---
 lib/buffer.js                      | 2 ++
 test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index e40b81a693c9fd..84f63a57df42c9 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -1332,3 +1332,5 @@ Buffer.prototype.swap64 = function swap64() {
   }
   return swap64n(this);
 };
+
+Buffer.prototype.toLocaleString = Buffer.prototype.toString;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js b/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js
index 00b63848d4e2d4..57bc8715974032 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js
@@ -1502,3 +1502,9 @@ assert.throws(() => Buffer.alloc({ valueOf: () => 1 }),
               /"size" argument must be a number/);
 assert.throws(() => Buffer.alloc({ valueOf: () => -1 }),
               /"size" argument must be a number/);
+
+assert.strictEqual(Buffer.prototype.toLocaleString, Buffer.prototype.toString);
+{
+  const buf = Buffer.from('test');
+  assert.strictEqual(buf.toLocaleString(), buf.toString());
+}