X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blobdiff_plain/5a2cfd6760f3610bfbc21909c6f4b10815a5910d..373a61056389d0b486fd4b1229fbe915c164b9b7:/lib/potlatch.rb

diff --git a/lib/potlatch.rb b/lib/potlatch.rb
index 919eb0122..35a60dfbb 100644
--- a/lib/potlatch.rb
+++ b/lib/potlatch.rb
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ module Potlatch
     end
 
     # Encode string with two-byte length
-    def self.encodestring(n) 
+    def self.encodestring(n)
+      n=n.dup.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")
       a,b=n.size.divmod(256)
       a.chr+b.chr+n
     end