Character encoding gets lost when running under Ruby 1.9

[lpar]

Demonstration code:

# encoding: UTF-8

require 'multimarkdown'

test = "Écouté bien!"
html = MultiMarkdown.new(test, :smart).to_html

puts test.encoding.name
puts test

puts html.encoding.name
puts html

Ideally it would provide the output string in whatever encoding it provides the string's contents in, which looks like it's the same encoding as the input string.

[abartov]

I'm encountering the same issue. to_html always returns 8-bit ASCII, despite UTF8 input.

[oawhyte]

Fixed in fb2ef24