Encoding#to_s

enc.to_s → string

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

Returns the name of the encoding.

Example

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

See also #names #name also in 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0