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Maintenance Ruby 3.4 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

String#ascii_only?

() -> bool
ascii_only? → true or false

Returns true if self contains only ASCII characters, false otherwise:

Example
'abc'.ascii_only?         # => true
"abc\u{6666}".ascii_only? # => false
See also #append_as_bytes #b #[]= #byteindex also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0