1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/tokenizer.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/tokenizer.rb
index c252e01cf5..8ac8d34430 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/tokenizer.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/tokenizer.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module HTML #:nodoc:
 
     # Create a new Tokenizer for the given text.
     def initialize(text)
-      text.encode! if text.encoding_aware?
+      text.encode!
       @scanner = StringScanner.new(text)
       @position = 0
       @line = 0