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Diffstat (limited to 'encoding.c')
-rw-r--r-- | encoding.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/encoding.c b/encoding.c index abc63f3c58..a88d176c0f 100644 --- a/encoding.c +++ b/encoding.c @@ -1042,12 +1042,13 @@ enc_find(VALUE klass, VALUE enc) /* * call-seq: - * Encoding.compatible?(str1, str2) -> enc or nil + * Encoding.compatible?(obj1, obj2) -> enc or nil * - * Checks the compatibility of two strings. - * If they are compatible, means concatenatable, - * returns an encoding which the concatenated string will be. - * If they are not compatible, nil is returned. + * Checks the compatibility of two objects. + * + * If the objects are both strings they are compatible when they are + * concatenatable. The encoding of the concatenated string will be returned + * if they are compatible, nil if they are not. * * Encoding.compatible?("\xa1".force_encoding("iso-8859-1"), "b") * #=> #<Encoding:ISO-8859-1> @@ -1057,6 +1058,11 @@ enc_find(VALUE klass, VALUE enc) * "\xa1\xa1".force_encoding("euc-jp")) * #=> nil * + * If the objects are non-strings their encodings are compatible when they + * have an encoding and: + * * Either encoding is US ASCII compatible + * * One of the encodings is a 7-bit encoding + * */ static VALUE enc_compatible_p(VALUE klass, VALUE str1, VALUE str2) |