method

compatible?

v1_9_1_378 - Show latest stable - Class: Encoding

compatible?(p1, p2)

public

Checks the compatibility of two strings. If they are compatible, means concatenatable, returns an encoding which the concatinated string will be. If they are not compatible, nil is returned.

Encoding.compatible?("\xa1".force_encoding("iso-8859-1"), "b")
=> #<Encoding:ISO-8859-1>

Encoding.compatible?(
  "\xa1".force_encoding("iso-8859-1"),
  "\xa1\xa1".force_encoding("euc-jp"))
=> nil

static VALUE
enc_compatible_p(VALUE klass, VALUE str1, VALUE str2)
{
    rb_encoding *enc;

    if (!enc_capable(str1)) return Qnil;
    if (!enc_capable(str2)) return Qnil;
    enc = rb_enc_compatible(str1, str2);
    if (!enc) return Qnil;
    return rb_enc_from_encoding(enc);
}

compatible?

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