Bug #7967: String#encode invalid: :replace doesn't replace invalid chars

• Status: Rejected
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.0.0-p0
• Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[coffeejunk (Maximilian Haack)]

=begin
1.9.3p385 :001 > "\xc3\x28".encode('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', invalid: :replace) =~ /\s/
=> nil

2.0.0-p0 :001 > "\xc3\x28".encode!('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', invalid: :replace) =~ /\s/
ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
from (irb):1
from /Users/max/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/irb:16:in `'
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

String#encode does nothing when source and destination encodings are same.