try manually setting string encoding setting

Changelog.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 = Cerberus Changelog
 
+== Version 0.8.0
+Ruby 1.9 bugfixes
+
+* Fixed Ruby 1.9 string encoding bug [git SCM]
+
 == Veresion 0.7.9
 Bugfixes
 
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@ Added channel password option to IRC publisher
 Bugfixes, publisher and config options updates, ActionMailer gem version requirements
 
 * Projects are now sorted when displayed via Cerberus CLI
-* Git builder now includes just the commit message instead of the commit diff 
+* Git builder now includes just the commit message instead of the commit diff
 in the publisher output and log file
 * Updated output/reporting of :setup_script during Manager#run.  Results
 are included in Publisher's formatted_message
@@ -28,7 +33,7 @@ Bugfixes and updates to RSS publisher
 
 * Fix mercurial builder to properly read revision number of merged commits
 * Updated RSS publisher to output a properly formatted RSS feed with the
-ability to keep a certain number of previous builds in the feed.  For more 
+ability to keep a certain number of previous builds in the feed.  For more
 info on the changes please see the commit message on the following commit:
 http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/cerberus/commit/1f7176a6a611f30a0d70e0f75ec90724f6302043
 * Update usage documentation
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@ Git, Twitter support
 == Version 0.3.6
 RSpec, Gmailer support
 
-* Added out of box support of RSpec tests. 
+* Added out of box support of RSpec tests.
   Usage: add to your project configuration following config
 
   builder:
@@ -150,7 +155,7 @@ RSpec, Gmailer support
     :username, :password, :proxy_host, :proxy_port, :proxy_user, :proxy_pass
 
 * Remove to_xs helper. Using one from actionsuport
-      
+
 
 == Version 0.3.5
 Bug fixing
@@ -177,7 +182,7 @@ Major changes
 * Correctly implement Jabber publisher using XMPP4R library
 * Upgrade Webgen to 0.4.1
 * Added 'getting better/worse' to build messages' subject
-* Added possibility to configure events on what you would like to receive messages. 
+* Added possibility to configure events on what you would like to receive messages.
   By default used 'default' events. It means all except 'successful' state.
   You could set to this options list of any valid states such as [broken, failed, revival, successful, setup] or predefined sets as
   [all, default, none].

bin/cerberus

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# encoding: UTF-8
 
 # Add lib dir to load path so that we don't have to be installed in rubygems
 require 'pathname' # Use Pathname to follow symlinks

lib/cerberus/constants.rb

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ module Cerberus
 
   LOCK_WAIT = 30 * 60 # 30 minutes
 
-  VERSION = '0.7.9'
+  VERSION = '0.8.0'
 end

lib/cerberus/scm/git.rb

@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ def execute(command, parameters = nil, with_path = true)
   end
 
   def extract_commit_info( commit=remote_head )
-    message = execute("log", "#{ commit } -1 --pretty='format:%an(%ae)|%ai|%H|%s%n%n%b'").split("|")
+    message = String.new.respond_to?(:force_encoding) ?
+      execute("log", "#{ commit } -1 --pretty='format:%an(%ae)|%ai|%H|%s%n%n%b'").force_encoding('utf-8').split("|") :
+      execute("log", "#{ commit } -1 --pretty='format:%an(%ae)|%ai|%H|%s%n%n%b'").split("|")
     return { :author => message[0], :date => message[1], :revision => message[2], :message => message[3] }
   end