Revert "Moved encoding work in progress to a feature branch."

This reverts commit ade756fe42423033bae8e5aea8f58782f7a6c517.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails.rb b/railties/lib/rails.rb
index 0611b2a9f5..be486ef2ac 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
   $KCODE='u'
 else
   Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
+  Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
 end
 
 module Rails
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb b/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
index 9353fbefef..8afe423973 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'active_support/deprecation'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/string/encoding'
 require 'rails/engine/configuration'
 
 module Rails
@@ -27,8 +28,15 @@ module Rails
 
       def encoding=(value)
         @encoding = value
-        if defined?(Encoding) && Encoding.respond_to?(:default_external=)
+        if "ruby".encoding_aware?
           Encoding.default_external = value
+          Encoding.default_internal = value
+        else
+          $KCODE = value
+          if $KCODE == "NONE"
+            raise "The value you specified for config.encoding is " \
+                  "invalid. The possible values are UTF8, SJIS, or EUC"
+          end
         end
       end