lib/mysql2xxxx/writer/json.rb in mysql2xxxx-0.0.4 vs lib/mysql2xxxx/writer/json.rb in mysql2xxxx-0.1.0

@@ -13,14 +13,9 @@
         if first
           first = false
         else
           f.write ','
         end
-        if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9'
-          # the mysql gem isn't encoding aware, so even if mysql returns proper utf-8, ruby 1.9 treats it as ASCII-8BIT
-          # here we force ruby to treat these strings as utf-8 without any further conversion
-          hsh.each { |k, v| hsh[k] = v.nil? ? nil : v.force_encoding(properties.encoding) }
-        end
         f.write hsh.to_json
       end
       f.write ']'
       nil
     end