diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 36b8de0..033daaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,10 +73,11 @@ utf8.encode('\uD800\uDC01');
 // → '\xF0\x90\x80\x81'
 ```
 
-### `utf8.decode(byteString)`
+### `utf8.decode(byteString, options)`
 
 Decodes any given UTF-8-encoded string (`byteString`) as UTF-8, and returns the UTF-8-decoded version of the string. It throws an error when malformed UTF-8 is detected. (If you need to be able to decode encoded non-scalar values as well, use [WTF-8](https://mths.be/wtf8) instead.)
 
+You can use `allowTruncatedEnd` option to ignore last symbol if it was truncated on the end of input.
 ```js
 utf8.decode('\xC2\xA9');
 // → '\xA9'
@@ -84,6 +85,9 @@ utf8.decode('\xC2\xA9');
 utf8.decode('\xF0\x90\x80\x81');
 // → '\uD800\uDC01'
 // → U+10001 LINEAR B SYLLABLE B038 E
+
+utf8.decode('\xC2\xA9\xC2', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+// → '\xA9'
 ```
 
 ### `utf8.version`
diff --git a/tests/tests.js b/tests/tests.js
index 2a57115..ed150fa 100644
--- a/tests/tests.js
+++ b/tests/tests.js
@@ -234,6 +234,54 @@
 			}
 		});
 
+		// Broken ending
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xD7', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xD7\x8A
+			'Decoding: 2-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xE2', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xE2\xB0\xBC
+			'Decoding: 3-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xE2\xB0', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xE2\xB0\xBC
+			'Decoding: 3-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xF0', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xF0\x9D\x8C\x86
+			'Decoding: 4-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xF0\x9D', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xF0\x9D\x8C\x86
+			'Decoding: 4-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'\x61\x62',
+			utf8.decode('\x61\x62\xF0\x9D\x8C', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xF0\x9D\x8C\x86
+			'Decoding: 4-byte ending is broken'
+		);
+		// The only symbol is broken
+		equal(
+			'',
+			utf8.decode('\xD7', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xD7\x8A
+			'Decoding: The only 2-byte is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'',
+			utf8.decode('\xE2\xB0', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xE2\xB0\xBC
+			'Decoding: The only 3-byte is broken'
+		);
+		equal(
+			'',
+			utf8.decode('\xF0\x9D\x8C', { allowTruncatedEnd: true }), // \xF0\x9D\x8C\x86
+			'Decoding: The only 4-byte is broken'
+		);
+
 		// Error handling
 		raises(
 			function() {
@@ -263,6 +311,48 @@
 			Error,
 			'Error: invalid byte index'
 		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xD7\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (2-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xE2\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (3-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xE2\xB0\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (3-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xF0\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (4-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xF0\x9D\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (4-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
+		raises(
+			function () {
+				utf8.decode('\xF0\x9D\x8C\x00', { allowTruncatedEnd: true });
+			},
+			Error,
+			'Error: invalid continuation byte (4-byte sequence expected)'
+		);
 	});
 
 	/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
diff --git a/utf8.js b/utf8.js
index c55e85c..ae655f6 100644
--- a/utf8.js
+++ b/utf8.js
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@
 
 	function readContinuationByte() {
 		if (byteIndex >= byteCount) {
+			if (allowTruncatedEnd) {
+				return false;
+			}
+
 			throw Error('Invalid byte index');
 		}
 
@@ -158,6 +162,9 @@
 		// 2-byte sequence
 		if ((byte1 & 0xE0) == 0xC0) {
 			byte2 = readContinuationByte();
+			if (byte2 === false) {
+				return false;
+			}
 			codePoint = ((byte1 & 0x1F) << 6) | byte2;
 			if (codePoint >= 0x80) {
 				return codePoint;
@@ -170,6 +177,9 @@
 		if ((byte1 & 0xF0) == 0xE0) {
 			byte2 = readContinuationByte();
 			byte3 = readContinuationByte();
+			if (byte3 === false) {
+				return false;
+			}
 			codePoint = ((byte1 & 0x0F) << 12) | (byte2 << 6) | byte3;
 			if (codePoint >= 0x0800) {
 				checkScalarValue(codePoint);
@@ -184,6 +194,9 @@
 			byte2 = readContinuationByte();
 			byte3 = readContinuationByte();
 			byte4 = readContinuationByte();
+			if (byte4 === false) {
+				return false;
+			}
 			codePoint = ((byte1 & 0x07) << 0x12) | (byte2 << 0x0C) |
 				(byte3 << 0x06) | byte4;
 			if (codePoint >= 0x010000 && codePoint <= 0x10FFFF) {
@@ -197,7 +210,9 @@
 	var byteArray;
 	var byteCount;
 	var byteIndex;
-	function utf8decode(byteString) {
+	var allowTruncatedEnd;
+	function utf8decode(byteString, options) {
+		allowTruncatedEnd = typeof options != 'undefined' ? options.allowTruncatedEnd : false;
 		byteArray = ucs2decode(byteString);
 		byteCount = byteArray.length;
 		byteIndex = 0;