method
find
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- Class:
Encoding
find(p1)public
Search the encoding with specified name. name should be a string.
Encoding.find("US-ASCII") #=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII>
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.