`gsub': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError) #18

Force UTF-8 encoding on strings coming from the system. Currently they are being cast as ASCII-US otherwise, which breaks on international alphabets.

Signed-off-by: Martin Lowe martin.lowe@eclipse-foundation.org

src/main/rb/eca.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# encoding: UTF-8
require 'json'
require 'httparty'
@@ -47,8 +48,8 @@ git_commits.each do |commit|
## Process Git data into JSON for each commit found
git_data = `git show -s --format='{"author": {"name":"%an","mail":"%ae"},"committer":{"name":"%cn","mail":"%ce"},"body":"%B","subject":"%s","hash":"%H", "parents":["#{commit_parents.join("\", \"")}"]}' #{commit}`
## Strip new lines as they FUBAR JSON parsers
-  git_data = git_data.gsub(/[\n\r]/, ' ')
-  processed_git_data.push(MultiJson.load(git_data))
+  git_data = git_data.force_encoding("utf-8").gsub(/[\n\r]/, ' ')
+  processed_git_data.push(MultiJson.load(git_data.force_encoding("utf-8")))
end
## Get the project ID from env var, extracting from pattern 'project-###'
@@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ json_data = {
## Generate request
response = HTTParty.post("https://api.eclipse.org/git/eca", :body => MultiJson.dump(json_data),
:headers => {
-    'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
+    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
+    'charset' => 'utf-8'
})
## convert request to hash map
parsed_response = MultiJson.load(response.body)