diff --git a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json_view/dump.md b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json_view/dump.md
index 2fd64a2ce..112716852 100644
--- a/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json_view/dump.md
+++ b/docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json_view/dump.md
@@ -48,8 +48,11 @@ Strong exception safety: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to the
 
 May throw `#!cpp std::bad_alloc` if allocating the output string fails. Unlike
 [`BasicJsonType::dump`](../basic_json/dump.md), there is no `error_handler` parameter and no
-[`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316): the view only ever holds text the parser
-already validated as UTF-8, so there is nothing to replace or ignore.
+[`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316): the parser validated the text the view
+holds as UTF-8, so there is nothing to replace or ignore. Only a document loaded with
+[`image_check::bounds` or `image_check::none`](../basic_json_document/load.md#image_check) can still throw it: these do
+not check the strings, so `dump()` writes such a string as it is, which can be invalid UTF-8 or invalid JSON, and
+`dump()` with `ensure_ascii` set to `#!cpp true` throws `type_error.316` for invalid UTF-8.
 
 ## Complexity