method

find

v1_9_3_125 - Show latest stable - Class: Encoding
find(p1)
public

Search the encoding with specified name. name should be a string or symbol.

Encoding.find("US-ASCII")  #=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
Encoding.find(:Shift_JIS)  #=> #<Encoding:Shift_JIS>

Names which this method accept are encoding names and aliases including following special aliases

“external”

default external encoding

“internal”

default internal encoding

“locale”

locale encoding

“filesystem”

filesystem encoding

An ArgumentError is raised when no encoding with name. Only Encoding.find(“internal”) however returns nil when no encoding named “internal”, in other words, when Ruby has no default internal encoding.