Standardise on double quoted strings

[rails.git] / lib / utf8.rb

diff --git a/lib/utf8.rb b/lib/utf8.rb
index c6e1918afb198b26a245325796624718a3d1f856..9e9279deb000efa4933030304829e304008dd1fd 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/utf8.rb
+++ b/lib/utf8.rb
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ module UTF8
   ##
   # Checks that a string is valid UTF-8 by trying to convert it to UTF-8
   # using the iconv library, which is in the standard library.
-  if String.new.respond_to?("valid_encoding?")
+  if "".respond_to?("valid_encoding?")
     def self.valid?(str)
       return true if str.nil?
-      return str.valid_encoding?
+      str.valid_encoding?
     end
   else
-    require 'iconv'
+    require "iconv"
 
     def self.valid?(str)
       return true if str.nil?