doc/string/intern.rdoc


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Returns the Symbol object derived from +self+,
creating it if it did not already exist:

  'foo'.intern       # => :foo
  'こんにちは'.intern # => :こんにちは

Related: see {Converting to Non-String}[rdoc-ref:String@Converting+to+Non--5CString].