diff --git a/lib/internal/encoding.js b/lib/internal/encoding.js
index b2ca3c612bf6ef..4f23752b6197c9 100644
--- a/lib/internal/encoding.js
+++ b/lib/internal/encoding.js
@@ -405,61 +405,75 @@ function makeTextDecoderICU() {
       validateObject(options, 'options', kValidateObjectAllowObjectsAndNull);
 
       const enc = getEncodingFromLabel(encoding);
-      if (enc === undefined)
+      if (enc === undefined || !hasConverter(enc))
         throw new ERR_ENCODING_NOT_SUPPORTED(encoding);
 
       let flags = 0;
       if (options !== null) {
-        flags |= options.fatal ? CONVERTER_FLAGS_FATAL : 0;
+        if (options.fatal) {
+          throw new ERR_NO_ICU('"fatal" option');
+        }
         flags |= options.ignoreBOM ? CONVERTER_FLAGS_IGNORE_BOM : 0;
       }
 
       this[kDecoder] = true;
+      // StringDecoder will normalize WHATWG encoding to Node.js encoding.
+      this[kHandle] = new (lazyStringDecoder())(enc);
       this[kFlags] = flags;
       this[kEncoding] = enc;
-      this[kIgnoreBOM] = Boolean(options?.ignoreBOM);
-      this[kFatal] = Boolean(options?.fatal);
-      // Only support fast path for UTF-8.
-      this[kUTF8FastPath] = enc === 'utf-8';
-      this[kLatin1FastPath] = enc === 'windows-1252';
-      this[kHandle] = undefined;
-
-      if (!this[kUTF8FastPath] && !this[kLatin1FastPath]) {
-        this.#prepareConverter();
-      }
-    }
-
-    #prepareConverter() {
-      if (this[kHandle] !== undefined) return;
-      const handle = getConverter(this[kEncoding], this[kFlags]);
-      if (handle === undefined)
-        throw new ERR_ENCODING_NOT_SUPPORTED(this[kEncoding]);
-      this[kHandle] = handle;
+      this[kBOMSeen] = false;
     }
 
     decode(input = empty, options = kEmptyObject) {
       validateDecoder(this);
+      
+      if (isAnyArrayBuffer(input)) {
+        try {
+          input = Buffer.from(input);
+        } catch {
+          input = empty;
+        }
+      } else if (isArrayBufferView(input)) {
+        try {
+          input = Buffer.from(input.buffer, input.byteOffset,
+                              input.byteLength);
+        } catch {
+          input = empty;
+        }
+      } else {
+        throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE('input',
+                                       ['ArrayBuffer', 'ArrayBufferView'],
+                                       input);
+      }
 
-      this[kUTF8FastPath] &&= !(options?.stream);
-      this[kLatin1FastPath] &&= !(options?.stream);
+      validateObject(options, 'options', kValidateObjectAllowObjectsAndNull);
 
-      if (this[kUTF8FastPath]) {
-        return decodeUTF8(input, this[kIgnoreBOM], this[kFatal]);
+      if (this[kFlags] & CONVERTER_FLAGS_FLUSH) {
+        this[kBOMSeen] = false;
       }
 
-      if (this[kLatin1FastPath]) {
-        return decodeLatin1(input, this[kIgnoreBOM], this[kFatal]);
+      if (options !== null && options.stream) {
+        this[kFlags] &= ~CONVERTER_FLAGS_FLUSH;
+      } else {
+        this[kFlags] |= CONVERTER_FLAGS_FLUSH;
       }
 
-      this.#prepareConverter();
-
-      validateObject(options, 'options', kValidateObjectAllowObjectsAndNull);
+      let result = this[kFlags] & CONVERTER_FLAGS_FLUSH ?
+        this[kHandle].end(input) :
+        this[kHandle].write(input);
 
-      let flags = 0;
-      if (options !== null)
-        flags |= options.stream ? 0 : CONVERTER_FLAGS_FLUSH;
+      if (result.length > 0 &&
+          !this[kBOMSeen] &&
+          !(this[kFlags] & CONVERTER_FLAGS_IGNORE_BOM)) {
+        // If the very first result in the stream is a BOM, and we are not
+        // explicitly told to ignore it, then we discard it.
+        if (result[0] === '\ufeff') {
+          result = StringPrototypeSlice(result, 1);
+        }
+        this[kBOMSeen] = true;
+      }
 
-      return _decode(this[kHandle], input, flags, this.encoding);
+      return result;
     }
   }
 
@@ -555,7 +569,6 @@ function makeTextDecoderJS() {
       return result;
     }
   }
-
   return TextDecoder;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-whatwg-encoding-custom-textdecoder.js b/test/parallel/test-whatwg-encoding-custom-textdecoder.js
index 7582da52a8b628..ad015005f7f709 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-whatwg-encoding-custom-textdecoder.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-whatwg-encoding-custom-textdecoder.js
@@ -233,3 +233,14 @@ if (common.hasIntl) {
   const decoder = new TextDecoder();
   assert.strictEqual(decoder.decode(buffer), '');
 }
+
+//Big5 encoding error byte sequence handling
+{
+  const decoder = new TextDecoder('Big5');
+  const input = new Uint8Array([0x83, 0x5C]);
+  const output = decoder.decode(input);
+
+  assert.strictEqual(output.length, 2, 'Big5 error sequence should decode to 2 characters');
+  assert.strictEqual(output.charCodeAt(0).toString(16), 'fffd', 'The first character should be U+FFFD');
+  assert.strictEqual(output.charCodeAt(1).toString(16), '5c', 'The second character should be U+005C');
+}
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