Bug #6156: String#tr fails on UTF-16

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]

[john_firebaugh (John Firebaugh)]

"b".encode("utf-16le").tr("a-z".encode("utf-16le"), "*".encode("utf-16le"))
ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-16LE
from (irb):91:in tr' from (irb):91 from /Users/john/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/irb:16:in '

Expected result is UTF-16LE "*".

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r35069.
John, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• string.c (trnext): should advance char-wise.
  [ruby-core:43335][Bug #6156]