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class method

Encoding.default_internal

Encoding.default_internal → enc

static VALUE
get_default_internal(VALUE klass)
{
    return rb_enc_default_internal();
}

Returns default internal encoding. Strings will be transcoded to the default internal encoding in the following places if the default internal encoding is not nil:

CSV
Etc.sysconfdir and Etc.systmpdir
File data read from disk
File names from Dir
Integer#chr
String#inspect and Regexp#inspect
Strings returned from Readline
Strings returned from SDBM
Time#zone
Values from ENV
Values in ARGV including $PROGRAM_NAME

Additionally String#encode and String#encode! use the default internal encoding if no encoding is given.

The script encoding (__ENCODING__), not default_internal, is used as the encoding of created strings.

Encoding::default_internal is initialized with -E option or nil otherwise.

See also .default_internal= .default_external= .default_external .find also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0

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