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+require_relative '../../spec_helper'
+
+describe "String#to_sym" do
+  it "returns the symbol corresponding to self" do
+    "Koala".to_sym.should.equal? :Koala
+    'cat'.to_sym.should.equal? :cat
+    '@cat'.to_sym.should.equal? :@cat
+    'cat and dog'.to_sym.should.equal? :"cat and dog"
+    "abc=".to_sym.should.equal? :abc=
+  end
+
+  it "does not special case +(binary) and -(binary)" do
+    "+(binary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"+(binary)"
+    "-(binary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"-(binary)"
+  end
+
+  it "does not special case certain operators" do
+    "!@".to_sym.should.equal? :"!@"
+    "~@".to_sym.should.equal? :"~@"
+    "!(unary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"!(unary)"
+    "~(unary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"~(unary)"
+    "+(unary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"+(unary)"
+    "-(unary)".to_sym.should.equal? :"-(unary)"
+  end
+
+  it "returns a US-ASCII Symbol for a UTF-8 String containing only US-ASCII characters" do
+    sym = "foobar".to_sym
+    sym.encoding.should == Encoding::US_ASCII
+    sym.should.equal? :"foobar"
+  end
+
+  it "returns a US-ASCII Symbol for a binary String containing only US-ASCII characters" do
+    sym = "foobar".b.to_sym
+    sym.encoding.should == Encoding::US_ASCII
+    sym.should.equal? :"foobar"
+  end
+
+  it "returns a UTF-8 Symbol for a UTF-8 String containing non US-ASCII characters" do
+    sym = "il était une fois".to_sym
+    sym.encoding.should == Encoding::UTF_8
+    sym.should.equal? :"il était une fois"
+  end
+
+  it "returns a UTF-16LE Symbol for a UTF-16LE String containing non US-ASCII characters" do
+    utf16_str = "UtéF16".encode(Encoding::UTF_16LE)
+    sym = utf16_str.to_sym
+    sym.encoding.should == Encoding::UTF_16LE
+    sym.to_s.should == utf16_str
+  end
+
+  it "returns a binary Symbol for a binary String containing non US-ASCII characters" do
+    binary_string = "binarí".b
+    sym = binary_string.to_sym
+    sym.encoding.should == Encoding::BINARY
+    sym.to_s.should == binary_string
+  end
+
+  it "ignores existing symbols with different encoding" do
+    source = "fée"
+
+    iso_symbol = source.dup.force_encoding(Encoding::ISO_8859_1).to_sym
+    iso_symbol.encoding.should == Encoding::ISO_8859_1
+    binary_symbol = source.dup.force_encoding(Encoding::BINARY).to_sym
+    binary_symbol.encoding.should == Encoding::BINARY
+  end
+
+  it "raises an EncodingError for UTF-8 String containing invalid bytes" do
+    invalid_utf8 = "\xC3"
+    invalid_utf8.should_not.valid_encoding?
+    -> {
+      invalid_utf8.to_sym
+    }.should.raise(EncodingError, 'invalid symbol in encoding UTF-8 :"\xC3"')
+  end
+end