instance method

String#valid_encoding?

() -> bool

valid_encoding? → true or false

static VALUE
rb_str_valid_encoding_p(VALUE str)
{
    int cr = rb_enc_str_coderange(str);

    return RBOOL(cr != ENC_CODERANGE_BROKEN);
}

Returns whether self is encoded correctly:

Example

s = 'Straße'
s.valid_encoding?                                 # => true
s.encoding                                        # => #<Encoding:UTF-8>
s.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII).valid_encoding? # => false

Related: see Querying.

See also #upto #upcase! also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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