Re: [sup-devel] Accept ASCII_8BIT in String.check

[Rich Lane <rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu>]

Excerpts from Johann Klähn's message of 2010-03-24 22:21:32 -0400:
> I was having problems with encoded emails. Using archlinux / ruby
> 1.9.1_p378 Iconv.iconv returns the encoding ASCII_8BIT,
> which was rejected by String.check.
> 
> Before I was getting debug messages like this when converting mails or
> building the index:
>  couldn't transcode text from ISO-8859-1 (ISO-8859-1) to utf8) (...)
> (got unexpected encoding ASCII-8BIT (String::CheckError))
> My String.check now contains:
>   if respond_to?(:encoding) && !(encoding == Encoding::UTF_8 ||
> encoding == Encoding::ASCII || encoding == Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
> And everything is working as expected. Instead of text.ascii the real
> umlauts are displayed.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Johann

An ASCII_8BIT string means there's a bug in sup. Please add an assertion
so that the program exits when the encoding is ASCII_8BIT and post the
backtrace. Also, what sup version is this?
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