new

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb, line 56
      def initialize(string, deprecation: true)
        if deprecation
          ActiveSupport.deprecator.warn(
            "ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 8.2. "              "Use normal string methods instead."
          )
        end

        @wrapped_string = string
        if string.encoding != Encoding::UTF_8
          @wrapped_string = @wrapped_string.dup
          @wrapped_string.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
        end
      end