From: knu@...
Date: 2015-12-14T08:00:44+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:72106] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11814] String#valid_encoding? without force_encoding

Issue #11814 has been updated by Akinori MUSHA.


For guessing the possible encodings for a byte stream, there are gems specialized for that purpose like charlock_homes, ucharset and rcharset.  They are mostly either a wrapper of LibICU4C or a port of Mozilla's encoding detector.


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Feature #11814: String#valid_encoding? without force_encoding
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11814#change-55522

* Author: Usaku NAKAMURA
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Now we have to set a encoding to a string to validate it, just like:

```ruby
str.force_encoding('euc-jp').valid_encoding?  # => true or false
```

But to modify the string is not so smart.
knu-san requires the way to validate a string without modifiing it [*1].

Then, I propose to add an optional encoding parameter to `String#valid_encoding?`.

```ruby
str.valid_encoding?('euc-jp')  # => true or false
```

A patch is attached.

[*1] https://twitter.com/knu/status/676009662655934465 (in Japanese)

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valid_encoding.patch (4.4 KB)


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