Forum: JRuby Apparent Jruby 1.6.7.2 Encoding bug

Ahoi all.

In the process of writing a gem I came across this failing test.

https://travis-ci.org/#!/rurounijones/yarder/jobs/2619214

The test in question comes from the ActiveSupport logger tests of the
main rails suite but has been copied into my repository.

The test code is here:

https://github.com/rurounijones/yarder/blob/master...

On MRI 1.93 and jruby 1.7.0.RC1 this passes.

However on 1.6.7.2 it fails due to line 117 expecting a UTF-8 encoded
string but actually getting an ACII-8BIT one.

The fact that it works on JRuby 1.7.0 leads me to believe that this is a
known issue and has been fixed. I also assume
that 1.6.7 will not receive this fix or it would have already (I cannot
believe I am the first to find this).

If I am incorrect and there is a different reason / solution to this
problem I would be grateful if someone could point it out.

cheers

Jeff

We (not me personally, but Tom Enebo and others) did a lot of work on 
Encoding for the 1.7 branch. So this particular problem may very well be 
fixed.

We also released 1.6.8 a while back, and that may contain the fix you 
need. If you need the 1.6.x release, give that a shot.

Hello Hirotsugu-san

Heh, I managed to totally forget that there was a 1.6.8 release. I just
tested it on that locally and it also failed with the same problem.

I am not wrenching my heart out about this because it would probably
only affect people trying to log non-ascii data on JRuby 1.6.x, I have
no qualms about saying "MRI 1.9.3 & JRuby 1.7 (1.6.X if you only log 
ascii)"

I was just wanting to make sure that it wasn't a moment of idiocy on my
part.

Cheers

Jeff