GitHub user cfeduke synchronized the pull request at https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/10
---- forced UTF-8 encoding for framed_transport Corrects "Incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8" exception in Ruby 1.9.x for framed_transport. ---- You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running $ git pull https://github.com/cfeduke/thrift trunk Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/10.patch