Reverting nobu's rubygems patch. It needs: 1) to have a test, 2) to be UTF8, and 3) to work on 1.8 (see Gem.read_binary). (It should also be submitted to the rubygems repo or tracker)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@30598 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb b/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb
index 20b27733fc..4700fbbb89 100644
--- a/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb
+++ b/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb
@@ -85,7 +85,11 @@ class Gem::SourceIndex
     def load_specification(file_name)
       return nil unless file_name and File.exist? file_name
 
-      spec_code = File.binread(file_name).untaint
+      spec_code = if defined? Encoding then
+                    File.read file_name, :encoding => 'UTF-8'
+                  else
+                    File.read file_name
+                  end.untaint
 
       begin
         gemspec = eval spec_code, binding, file_name