lib/sup/textfield.rb in sup-0.13.2.1 vs lib/sup/textfield.rb in sup-0.14.0

@@ -166,9 +166,19 @@
     if x - @question.length - v.length <= 0
       v
     else # trailing spaces
       v + (" " * (x - @question.length - v.length))
     end
+
+    # ncurses returns a ASCII-8BIT (binary) string, which
+    # bytes presumably are of current charset encoding. we force_encoding
+    # so that the char representation / string is tagged will be the
+    # system locale and also hopefully the terminal/input encoding. an
+    # incorrectly configured terminal encoding (not matching the system
+    # encoding) will produce erronous results, but will also do that for
+    # a log of other programs since it is impossible to detect which is
+    # which and what encoding the inputted byte chars are supposed to have.
+    v.force_encoding($encoding).fix_encoding
   end
 
   def remove_extra_space
     return nil unless @field