diff --git a/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.js b/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.js
index da7a25d..cbc82e3 100644
--- a/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.js
+++ b/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.js
@@ -6,31 +6,40 @@ exports.create = function(s) {
   return function () {
     return new ArrayBuffer(s);
   };
-}
+};
 
 exports.byteLength = function(a) {
   return a.byteLength;
-}
+};
 
 exports.sliceImpl = function(s, e, a) {
   return function () {
     return a.slice(s, e);
   };
-}
+};
 
 exports.fromArray = function(s) {
   return (new Uint8Array(s)).buffer;
-}
+};
 
 exports.fromIntArray = function(s) {
   return (new Uint8Array(s)).buffer;
-}
+};
 
 exports.fromString = function(s) {
-  var l = s.length;
-  var ab = new ArrayBuffer(l * 2);
-  var a = new Uint16Array(ab);
-  for (var i = 0; i < l; i++)
-    a[i] = s.charCodeAt(i);
-  return a.buffer;
-}
+  var buf = new ArrayBuffer(s.length*2);
+  var bufView = new Uint16Array(buf);
+  for (var i=0, strLen=s.length; i<strLen; i++) {
+    bufView[i] = s.charCodeAt(i);
+  }
+ return buf;
+};
+
+exports.decodeToStringImpl = function(just, nothing, buffer) {
+  try {
+    return just(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array(buffer)));
+  }
+  catch (e) {
+    return nothing;
+  }
+};
diff --git a/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.purs b/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.purs
index 6ad938b..82fed09 100644
--- a/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.purs
+++ b/src/Data/ArrayBuffer/ArrayBuffer.purs
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ module Data.ArrayBuffer.ArrayBuffer ( create
                                     , fromArray
                                     , fromIntArray
                                     , fromString
+                                    , decodeToString
                                    ) where
 
 import Effect (Effect)
+import Data.Maybe (Maybe(..))
 import Data.Function.Uncurried (Fn3, runFn3)
 import Data.ArrayBuffer.Types (ArrayBuffer, ByteOffset, ByteLength)
 
@@ -30,3 +32,11 @@ foreign import fromIntArray :: Array Int -> ArrayBuffer
 
 -- | Convert a string into an `ArrayBuffer` representation.
 foreign import fromString :: String -> ArrayBuffer
+
+foreign import decodeToStringImpl :: Fn3 (String -> Maybe String) (Maybe String) ArrayBuffer (Maybe String)
+
+-- | Convert an ArrayBuffer into a string. Uses fromCharCode and thus does not support full utf-16
+-- | Is currently only defined for ArrayBuffers with even numbers of bytes, as it assumes the ArrayBuffer encodes string data.
+-- | For more general string-encoding forms of data, use a base64 or other encoding scheme.
+decodeToString :: ArrayBuffer -> Maybe String
+decodeToString = runFn3 decodeToStringImpl Just Nothing
diff --git a/test/Main.purs b/test/Main.purs
index 9a660d7..66247f4 100644
--- a/test/Main.purs
+++ b/test/Main.purs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import Data.ArrayBuffer.DataView as DV
 import Data.ArrayBuffer.Typed as TA
 import Data.Maybe (Maybe(..), isNothing)
 import Data.UInt (fromInt, pow)
-import Test.QuickCheck (quickCheck', (<?>))
+import Test.QuickCheck (quickCheck', (<?>), quickCheck)
 
 assertEffEquals :: forall a. Eq a => Show a => a -> Effect a -> Effect Unit
 assertEffEquals expectedValue computation = do
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ main = do
   assertEquals 4 $ AB.byteLength $ AB.fromArray [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]
   assertEquals 4 $ AB.byteLength $ AB.fromIntArray [1, 2, 3, 4]
   assertEquals 8 $ AB.byteLength $ AB.fromString "hola"
+  assertEquals 8 $ AB.byteLength $ AB.fromString "hóla"
+  assertEquals 10 $ AB.byteLength $ AB.fromString "hóla¡"
   assertEquals 8 $ AB.byteLength $ DV.buffer $ DV.whole ab8
   assertEquals 8 $ AB.byteLength $ DV.buffer $ TA.dataView $ TA.asInt8Array $ DV.whole ab8
 
@@ -47,6 +49,12 @@ main = do
   assertEffEquals Nothing $ TA.at fourElementInt8Array 4
   assertEffEquals Nothing $ TA.at fourElementInt8Array (-1)
 
+  quickCheck
+    \(s) ->
+      Just s == (AB.decodeToString $ AB.fromString s)
+      <?> "Isormorphic arraybuffer conversion with string failed for input "
+      <> s
+
   assertEquals [1.0, 2.0, 3.0] $ TA.toArray <<< TA.asInt8Array <<< DV.whole $ AB.fromArray [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]
 
   twoElementDataView <- do
@@ -66,3 +74,4 @@ main = do
     DV.setUint8 dv t 2
     DV.setUint8 dv t 3
     DV.getUint32be dv 0
+