instance method `is_utf8?`

Ruby on Rails 5.2.8.1

Since v3.0.20

Available in: v3.0.20 v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

Compare with:

is_utf8?()

Returns true if string has utf_8 encoding.

utf_8_str = "some string".encode "UTF-8"
iso_str = "some string".encode "ISO-8859-1"

utf_8_str.is_utf8? # => true
iso_str.is_utf8?   # => false

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb, line 47
  def is_utf8?
    case encoding
    when Encoding::UTF_8
      valid_encoding?
    when Encoding::ASCII_8BIT, Encoding::US_ASCII
      dup.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8).valid_encoding?
    else
      false
    end
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb line 47 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in String

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