From 106aead4620dc5d56c74c513f49dfb0600a44085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Batts <vbatts@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:43:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixing encoding issues for newer ruby

---
 lib/persistent-shell-history/binary-history-store.rb | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/persistent-shell-history/binary-history-store.rb b/lib/persistent-shell-history/binary-history-store.rb
index 202c041..5e6cf6a 100644
--- a/lib/persistent-shell-history/binary-history-store.rb
+++ b/lib/persistent-shell-history/binary-history-store.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 require 'digest/md5'
 require 'gdbm'
 require 'yaml'
@@ -7,6 +6,11 @@ require 'persistent-shell-history/abstract-history-store'
 require 'persistent-shell-history/history'
 require 'persistent-shell-history/command'
 
+if RUBY_VERSION >= "1.9" # assuming you're running Ruby ~1.9
+  Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
+  Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
+end
+
 module Persistent
   module Shell
     class BinaryHistoryStore < AbstractHistoryStore
@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ module Persistent
 
       # display a formatted time commend
       def fmt(cmd); " %s %s" % [Time.at(cmd[:time]).strftime(@options[:time_format]), cmd[:cmd]]; end
-    
+
       def find(pat)
         return values.select {|v|
           v if v[:cmd] =~ /#{pat}/
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@ module Persistent
           }
         }.flatten
       end
-    
+
       def load(filename = @options[:file])
         open(filename) do |f|
           f.each_line do |line|