# class Encoding::UndefinedConversionError

Raised by `Encoding` and `String` methods when a transcoding operation fails.

### Public Instance Methods

destination_encoding → string click to toggle source

Returns the destination encoding as an encoding object.

    static VALUE
    ecerr_destination_encoding(VALUE self)
    {
        return rb_attr_get(self, id_destination_encoding);
    }

destination_encoding_name → string click to toggle source

Returns the destination encoding name as a string.

    static VALUE
    ecerr_destination_encoding_name(VALUE self)
    {
        return rb_attr_get(self, id_destination_encoding_name);
    }

error_char → string click to toggle source

Returns the one-character string which cause `Encoding::UndefinedConversionError`.

    ec = Encoding::Converter.new("ISO-8859-1", "EUC-JP")
    begin
      ec.convert("\xa0")
    rescue Encoding::UndefinedConversionError
      puts $!.error_char.dump   #=> "\xC2\xA0"
      p $!.error_char.encoding  #=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
    end

    static VALUE
    ecerr_error_char(VALUE self)
    {
        return rb_attr_get(self, id_error_char);
    }

source_encoding → encoding click to toggle source

Returns the source encoding as an encoding object.

Note that the result may not be equal to the source encoding of the encoding converter if the conversion has multiple steps.

    ec = Encoding::Converter.new("ISO-8859-1", "EUC-JP") # ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 -> EUC-JP
    begin
      ec.convert("\xa0") # NO-BREAK SPACE, which is available in UTF-8 but not in EUC-JP.
    rescue Encoding::UndefinedConversionError
      p $!.source_encoding              #=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
      p $!.destination_encoding         #=> #<Encoding:EUC-JP>
      p $!.source_encoding_name         #=> "UTF-8"
      p $!.destination_encoding_name    #=> "EUC-JP"
    end

    static VALUE
    ecerr_source_encoding(VALUE self)
    {
        return rb_attr_get(self, id_source_encoding);
    }

source_encoding_name → string click to toggle source

Returns the source encoding name as a string.

    static VALUE
    ecerr_source_encoding_name(VALUE self)
    {
        return rb_attr_get(self, id_source_encoding_name);
    }