Raised by Encoding and String methods when the string being transcoded contains a byte invalid for the either the source or target encoding.

Instance Methods

Returns the destination encoding as an encoding object.

Returns the destination encoding name as a string.

Returns the discarded bytes when Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError occurs.

ec = Encoding::Converter.new("EUC-JP", "ISO-8859-1")
begin
  ec.convert("abc\xA1\xFFdef")
rescue Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError
  p $!      #=> #<Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xA1" followed by "\xFF" on EUC-JP>
  puts $!.error_bytes.dump          #=> "\xA1"
  puts $!.readagain_bytes.dump      #=> "\xFF"
end

Returns true if the invalid byte sequence error is caused by premature end of string.

ec = Encoding::Converter.new("EUC-JP", "ISO-8859-1")

begin
  ec.convert("abc\xA1z")
rescue Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError
  p $!      #=> #<Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xA1" followed by "z" on EUC-JP>
  p $!.incomplete_input?    #=> false
end

begin
  ec.convert("abc\xA1")
  ec.finish
rescue Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError
  p $!      #=> #<Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: incomplete "\xA1" on EUC-JP>
  p $!.incomplete_input?    #=> true
end

Returns the bytes to be read again when Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError occurs.

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

Returns the source encoding name as a string.