1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/string/chars_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/string/chars_spec.rb
index e4f26bc0cc..ee85430574 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/string/chars_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/string/chars_spec.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+require_relative "../../spec_helper"
 require_relative 'shared/chars'
-require_relative 'shared/each_char_without_block'
 
 describe "String#chars" do
   it_behaves_like :string_chars, :chars
@@ -7,4 +7,10 @@ describe "String#chars" do
   it "returns an array when no block given" do
     "hello".chars.should == ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']
   end
+
+  it "returns Strings in the same encoding as self" do
+    "hello".encode("US-ASCII").chars.each do |c|
+      c.encoding.should == Encoding::US_ASCII
+    end
+  end
 end