1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/test/webrick/test_filehandler.rb b/test/webrick/test_filehandler.rb
index 9674c176cf..998e03f690 100644
--- a/test/webrick/test_filehandler.rb
+++ b/test/webrick/test_filehandler.rb
@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ class WEBrick::TestFileHandler < Test::Unit::TestCase
   end
 
   def test_multibyte_char_in_path
+    if Encoding.default_external == Encoding.find('US-ASCII')
+      reset_encoding = true
+      verb = $VERBOSE
+      $VERBOSE = false
+      Encoding.default_external = Encoding.find('UTF-8')
+    end
+
     c = "\u00a7"
     begin
       c = c.encode('filesystem')
@@ -320,6 +327,11 @@ class WEBrick::TestFileHandler < Test::Unit::TestCase
         }
       end
     end
+  ensure
+    if reset_encoding
+      Encoding.default_external = Encoding.find('US-ASCII')
+      $VERBOSE = verb
+    end
   end
 
   def test_script_disclosure