Bug#648756: ruby-htmlentities: Test suite for HtmlEntities fails under Ruby 1.9.1

[Gunnar Wolf]

Package: ruby-htmlentities
Version: 4.3.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream

Hi,

While preparing an upload for the 4.3.0 release of your package, I
noticed a newly added part of the test suite fails under Ruby 1.9.1:

# Running tests:

.....................................................F.F....

Finished tests in 3.584750s, 16.7376 tests/s, 903.8287 assertions/s.

  1) Failure:
test_should_encode_ascii_to_ascii(HTMLEntities::Ruby19Test) 
[/home/gwolf/cvs/build-area/ruby-htmlentities-4.3.0/test/ruby_1_9_test.rb:13]:
<#<Encoding:US-ASCII>> expected but was
<#<Encoding:UTF-8>>.

  2) Failure:
test_should_encode_utf8_to_ascii_if_possible(HTMLEntities::Ruby19Test) 
[/home/gwolf/cvs/build-area/ruby-htmlentities-4.3.0/test/ruby_1_9_test.rb:31]:
<#<Encoding:US-ASCII>> expected but was
<#<Encoding:UTF-8>>.

I shrunk it to the following case:

$ ruby1.9.1 -e 'require "htmlentities"; t=HTMLEntities.new.encode("<élan>"); 
puts t; puts t.encoding'
&lt;élan&gt;
UTF-8

This is, the «é» character is not getting encoded into an ASCII-safe
character. The only reason I can find for the encoder not to notice my
«é» is that my current locale (and terminal) are UTF-based, where you
might be detecting single characters:

$ echo $LANG
en_US.utf8

Thanks for any hints you can give.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244

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