[ruby-core:28246] [Backport #2762] in `sub!': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError); using backticks

Backport #2762: in `sub!': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError); using backticks
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2762

Author: Johannes Dewender
Status: Open, Priority: Normal

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.


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