lib/avro/io.rb in avro-1.7.7 vs lib/avro/io.rb in avro-1.8.0

@@ -207,10 +207,10 @@
       end
 
       # A string is encoded as a long followed by that many bytes of
       # UTF-8 encoded character data
       def write_string(datum)
-        # FIXME utf-8 encode this in 1.9
+        datum = datum.encode('utf-8') if datum.respond_to? :encode
         write_bytes(datum)
       end
 
       # Write an arbritary datum.
       def write(datum)