[DRE-maint] Bug#757726: ruby-rchardet: require 'rchardet fails' with invalid multibyte escape

[Tom Epperly]

Package: ruby-rchardet
Version: 1.3-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Here is what I did:
sudo apt-get install ruby-rchardet
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rchardet'
SyntaxError: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rchardet/universaldetector.rb:39: invalid multibyte escape: /[\x80-\xFF]/
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rchardet.rb:55:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from (irb):1
        from /usr/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'
irb(main):002:0> 


$ irb1.9
irb(main):001:0> require 'rchardet'
=> true

The Ruby 1.9 behavior is what I expected in Ruby 2.1.1.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ruby-rchardet depends on:
ii  ruby                          1:2.1.0.2
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.484-2
ii  ruby2.0 [ruby-interpreter]    2.0.0.484+really457-3
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]    2.1.2-2

ruby-rchardet recommends no packages.

ruby-rchardet suggests no packages.

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