X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blobdiff_plain/373a61056389d0b486fd4b1229fbe915c164b9b7..0472e6cad4d2c68b0831caa9eeea582f0f297027:/lib/potlatch.rb

diff --git a/lib/potlatch.rb b/lib/potlatch.rb
index 35a60dfbb..359492fa7 100644
--- a/lib/potlatch.rb
+++ b/lib/potlatch.rb
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ module Potlatch
 
     # Encode string with two-byte length
     def self.encodestring(n)
-      n=n.dup.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")
+      n=n.dup.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT") if n.respond_to?("force_encoding")
       a,b=n.size.divmod(256)
       a.chr+b.chr+n
     end