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Function `std.encoding.encodingName`

Returns the name of an encoding.


						
				string encodingName(T)() @property;

The type of encoding cannot be deduced. Therefore, it is necessary to explicitly specify the encoding type.

Standards

Unicode 5.0, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, WINDOWS-1250, WINDOWS-1251, WINDOWS-1252

Example

writeln(encodingName!(char)); // "UTF-8"
writeln(encodingName!(wchar)); // "UTF-16"
writeln(encodingName!(dchar)); // "UTF-32"
writeln(encodingName!(AsciiChar)); // "ASCII"
writeln(encodingName!(Latin1Char)); // "ISO-8859-1"
writeln(encodingName!(Latin2Char)); // "ISO-8859-2"
writeln(encodingName!(Windows1250Char)); // "windows-1250"
writeln(encodingName!(Windows1251Char)); // "windows-1251"
writeln(encodingName!(Windows1252Char)); // "windows-1252"

Authors

Janice Caron

License

Boost License 1.0.