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Feature #20792

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String#forcible_encoding?

Added by kddnewton (Kevin Newton) 26 days ago. Updated 15 days ago.

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[ruby-core:119495]

Description

I would like to add a method to String called forcible_encoding?(encoding). This would return true or false depending on whether the receiver can be forced into the given encoding without breaking the string. It would effectively be an alias for:

def forcible_encoding?(enc)
  original = encoding
  result = force_encoding(enc).valid_encoding?
  force_encoding(original)
  result
end

I would like this method because there are extremely rare but possible circumstances where source files are marked as binary but contain UTF-8-encoded characters. In that case I would like to check if it's possible to cleanly force UTF-8 before actually doing it. The code I'm trying to replace is here: https://github.com/ruby/prism/blob/d6e9b8de36b4d18debfe36e4545116539964ceeb/lib/prism/parse_result.rb#L15-L30.

The pull request for the code is here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/11851.

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