Framework crashes on launch on Solaris with invalid encoding ("ascii//ignore//translit", "utf-8")

I confirm the bug and the fix by James Ravn. Tested with Rails 2.2.2

+1 on fix, makes sense.

Good catch. Please attach a patch and test.

Still needs a test case.

This patch causes several errors and warnings on macosx:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake/gempackagetask.rb:13:Warning: Gem::manage_gems is deprecated and will be removed on or after March 2009. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -w -Ilib:test "/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/buffered_logger_test.rb" "test/caching_test.rb" "test/callbacks_test.rb" "test/clean_backtrace_test.rb" "test/clean_logger_test.rb" "test/core_ext/array_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/base64_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/blank_test.rb" "test/core_ext/cgi_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/class/attribute_accessor_test.rb" "test/core_ext/class/class_inheritable_attributes_test.rb" "test/core_ext/class/delegating_attributes_test.rb" "test/core_ext/class_test.rb" "test/core_ext/date_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/date_time_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/duplicable_test.rb" "test/core_ext/duration_test.rb" "test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb" "test/core_ext/exception_test.rb" "test/core_ext/file_test.rb" "test/core_ext/float_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/hash_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/integer_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/kernel_test.rb" "test/core_ext/load_error_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/attr_accessor_with_default_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/attr_internal_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/attribute_accessor_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/attribute_aliasing_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/model_naming_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module/synchronization_test.rb" "test/core_ext/module_test.rb" "test/core_ext/name_error_test.rb" "test/core_ext/numeric_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/object_and_class_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/object_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/pathname_test.rb" "test/core_ext/proc_test.rb" "test/core_ext/range_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/symbol_test.rb" "test/core_ext/time_ext_test.rb" "test/core_ext/time_with_zone_test.rb" "test/dependencies_test.rb" "test/deprecation_test.rb" "test/gzip_test.rb" "test/i18n_test.rb" "test/inflector_test.rb" "test/json/decoding_test.rb" "test/json/encoding_test.rb" "test/memoizable_test.rb" "test/message_encryptor_test.rb" "test/message_verifier_test.rb" "test/multibyte_chars_test.rb" "test/multibyte_unicode_database_test.rb" "test/option_merger_test.rb" "test/ordered_hash_test.rb" "test/ordered_options_test.rb" "test/rescuable_test.rb" "test/secure_random_test.rb" "test/string_inquirer_test.rb" "test/test_test.rb" "test/time_zone_test.rb" "test/whiny_nil_test.rb" ./test/../lib/active_support/core_ext/try.rb:23: warning: discarding old try Skipping memcached backed store tests. Start memcached and try again. Loaded suite /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader Started ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:37: warning: method redefined; discarding old initialize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:43: warning: method redefined; discarding old plural ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:51: warning: method redefined; discarding old singular ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:63: warning: method redefined; discarding old irregular ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:83: warning: method redefined; discarding old uncountable ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:94: warning: method redefined; discarding old human ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:105: warning: method redefined; discarding old clear ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:122: warning: method redefined; discarding old inflections ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:138: warning: method redefined; discarding old pluralize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:157: warning: method redefined; discarding old singularize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:178: warning: method redefined; discarding old camelize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:195: warning: method redefined; discarding old titleize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:206: warning: method redefined; discarding old underscore ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:218: warning: method redefined; discarding old dasherize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:228: warning: method redefined; discarding old humanize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:240: warning: method redefined; discarding old demodulize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:259: warning: method redefined; discarding old parameterize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:274: warning: method redefined; discarding old transliterate ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:309: warning: method redefined; discarding old tableize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:323: warning: method redefined; discarding old classify ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:336: warning: method redefined; discarding old foreign_key ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:360: warning: method redefined; discarding old constantize ./test/../lib/active_support/inflector.rb:391: warning: method redefined; discarding old ordinalize ....................................................FF................................................................................................................................................................................................F.....FF.....F...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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1) Failure: test_partial_path(ModelNamingTest)

[./test/core_ext/module/model_naming_test.rb:17:in `test_partial_path'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"post/track_backs/track_back"> expected but was <"post/track_back/track_back">.

2) Failure: test_plural(ModelNamingTest)

[./test/core_ext/module/model_naming_test.rb:13:in `test_plural'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"post_track_backs"> expected but was <"post_track_back">.

3) Failure: test_classify(StringInflectionsTest)

[./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:76:in `test_classify'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:75:in `each'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:75:in `test_classify'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"NodeChild"> expected but was <"NodeChildren">.

4) Failure: test_pluralize(StringInflectionsTest)

[./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:11:in `test_pluralize'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:10:in `each'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:10:in `test_pluralize'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"tomatoes"> expected but was <"tomato">.

5) Failure: test_singularize(StringInflectionsTest)

[./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:19:in `test_singularize'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:18:in `each'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:18:in `test_singularize'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"tomato"> expected but was <"tomatoes">.

6) Failure: test_tableize(StringInflectionsTest)

[./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:70:in `test_tableize'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:69:in `each'
 ./test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:69:in `test_tableize'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `__send__'
 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mocha-0.9.3/lib/mocha/test_case_adapter.rb:69:in `run']:

<"node_children"> expected but was <"node_child">.

1632 tests, 7074 assertions, 6 failures, 0 errors rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/...]

AS 3.0's Inflector no longer uses Iconv, so this shouldn't be relevant any more.

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