1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/string/shared/eql.rb b/spec/ruby/core/string/shared/eql.rb
index 85b861f4f1..845b0a3e15 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/string/shared/eql.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/string/shared/eql.rb
@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ describe :string_eql_value, shared: true do
   end
 
   it "ignores encoding difference of compatible string" do
-    "hello".force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "hello".force_encoding("iso-8859-1")).should be_true
+    "hello".dup.force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "hello".dup.force_encoding("iso-8859-1")).should be_true
   end
 
   it "considers encoding difference of incompatible string" do
-    "\xff".force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "\xff".force_encoding("iso-8859-1")).should be_false
+    "\xff".dup.force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "\xff".dup.force_encoding("iso-8859-1")).should be_false
   end
 
   it "considers encoding compatibility" do
-    "hello".force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "hello".force_encoding("utf-32le")).should be_false
+    "abcd".dup.force_encoding("utf-8").send(@method, "abcd".dup.force_encoding("utf-32le")).should be_false
   end
 
   it "ignores subclass differences" do
@@ -31,4 +31,8 @@ describe :string_eql_value, shared: true do
     a.send(@method, b).should be_true
     b.send(@method, a).should be_true
   end
+
+  it "returns true when comparing 2 empty strings but one is not ASCII-compatible" do
+    "".send(@method, "".dup.force_encoding('iso-2022-jp')).should == true
+  end
 end