diff --git a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/dump.md b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/dump.md
index 21e22a48c..ca0d77236 100644
--- a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/dump.md
+++ b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/dump.md
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ and `ensure_ascii` parameters.
 `error_handler` (in)
 :   how to react on decoding errors; there are three possible values (see [`error_handler_t`](error_handler_t.md):
     `strict` (throws and exception in case a decoding error occurs; default), `replace` (replace invalid UTF-8 sequences
-    with U+FFFD), and `ignore` (ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences during serialization; all bytes are copied to the output
-    unchanged)).
+    with U+FFFD), and `ignore` (ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences during serialization; all valid bytes are copied to the
+    output unchanged, and invalid bytes are dropped)).
     
 ## Return value
 
diff --git a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/error_handler_t.md b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/error_handler_t.md
index dc32ced9b..f20c33c03 100644
--- a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/error_handler_t.md
+++ b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/error_handler_t.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ replace
 :   replace invalid UTF-8 sequences with U+FFFD (� REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)
 
 ignore
-:   ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences; all bytes are copied to the output unchanged
+:   ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences; all valid bytes are copied to the output unchanged, and invalid bytes are dropped
 
 ## Examples