1 files changed, 9 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
index 6ca6375fda..472de7bc24 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
@@ -1,22 +1,13 @@
-autoload :StringScanner, 'strscan' unless defined? :StringScanner
+unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:each_char)
+  autoload :StringScanner, 'strscan' unless defined? :StringScanner
 
-module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
-  module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
-    module String #:nodoc:
-      # Custom string iterators
-      module Iterators
-        def self.append_features(base)
-          super unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:each_char)
-        end
-
-        # Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
-        # When $KCODE = 'UTF8', multi-byte characters are yielded appropriately.
-        def each_char
-          scanner, char = StringScanner.new(self), /./mu
-          while c = scanner.scan(char)
-            yield c
-          end
-        end
+  class String
+    # Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
+    # When $KCODE = 'UTF8', multi-byte characters are yielded appropriately.
+    def each_char
+      scanner, char = StringScanner.new(self), /./mu
+      while c = scanner.scan(char)
+        yield c
       end
     end
   end