Revert "Remove setting of internal and external encodings for ruby 1.9 - as per 512d8e3d1845e327740acc2f7326e72b23d0d604, this is already the default in Rails 3." <- Although this is the default in Rails, Rails isn't loaded at this point in the script.

This reverts commit 6124624f4035e74eb79f1e93f26d5584ed3e2fa1.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/script/handle-mail-replies.rb b/script/handle-mail-replies.rb
index be6bd10da..da0fc8e96 100755
--- a/script/handle-mail-replies.rb
+++ b/script/handle-mail-replies.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ load 'configuration.rb'
 MySociety::Config.set_file(File.join($alaveteli_dir, 'config', 'general'), true)
 MySociety::Config.load_default
 require 'mail_handler'
+if RUBY_VERSION.to_f >= 1.9
+    # the default encoding for IO is utf-8, and we use utf-8 internally
+    Encoding.default_external = Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
+end
 
 def main(in_test_mode)
     Dir.chdir($alaveteli_dir) do