From: "k776 (Kieran P)" Date: 2013-03-19T13:52:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:53528] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8123][Open] Transcoding exception when using replace along with universal_newline Issue #8123 has been reported by k776 (Kieran P). ---------------------------------------- Bug #8123: Transcoding exception when using replace along with universal_newline https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8123 Author: k776 (Kieran P) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 1.9.3 and 2.0.0 The following can be reproduced on 1.9.3-p385, 1.9.3-p392, and 2.0.0-p0. body, charset = "hey", "hey".encoding.to_s body = body.encode('UTF-8', charset, :invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => '', :universal_newline => true ) Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError: code converter not found (universal_newline) However, if you remove ":replace => '', ", then it works as intended. Seems you can't use the two options together. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/