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instance method

Encoding#name

enc.name → string

static VALUE
enc_name(VALUE self)
{
    return rb_fstring_cstr(rb_enc_name((rb_encoding*)DATA_PTR(self)));
}

Alias of #to_s

Returns the name of the encoding.

Example

Encoding::UTF_8.name      #=> "UTF-8"

See also #to_s #inspect #names #dummy? also in 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.0