Backport #2762
Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) almost 5 years ago
=begin Current stalbe ruby 1.9.1 has problems with UTF/Unicode strings coming from backticks. Reading the file with File.read('filename') works as expected. Only using backticks gives an error in a substitution afterwards: in `sub!': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) This is my test skript: #!/usr/bin/env ruby puts "Using ruby #{RUBY_VERSION} on #{RUBY_PLATFORM} from #{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE}" puts "File.read:" File.read('testString.txt').sub!(/foo.*/, "hallo") puts " success" puts "backticks:" `cat testString.txt`.sub!(/foo.*/, "hallo") puts " success" puts "No problem in this version" And this is the output on the ruby versions I tested: Using ruby 1.8.7 on x86_64-linux from 2010-01-10 File.read: success backticks: success No problem in this version Using ruby 1.9.1 on x86_64-linux from 2010-01-10 File.read: success backticks: ./test.rb:9:in `sub!': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) from ./test.rb:9:in `<main> Using ruby 1.9.2 on x86_64-linux from 2010-02-13 File.read: success backticks: success No problem in this version (using revision 26652 for 1.9.2) So it is working in 1.9.2 again, but could this fix get backported to stable 1.9.1? I could not find out which revision this is fixed though, because I had trouble compiling older revisions. =end