1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/language/symbol_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/language/symbol_spec.rb
index 41be5b2236..90540f7d1d 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/language/symbol_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/language/symbol_spec.rb
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ describe "A Symbol literal" do
     }
   end
 
+  it 'inherits the encoding of the magic comment and can have a binary encoding' do
+    ruby_exe(fixture(__FILE__, "binary_symbol.rb"))
+      .should == "[105, 108, 95, 195, 169, 116, 97, 105, 116]\nASCII-8BIT\n"
+  end
+
   it "may contain '::' in the string" do
     :'Some::Class'.should be_kind_of(Symbol)
   end
@@ -90,4 +95,12 @@ describe "A Symbol literal" do
   it "can be created from list syntax %I{a b c} with interpolation" do
     %I{a b #{"c"}}.should == [:a, :b, :c]
   end
+
+  it "with invalid bytes raises an EncodingError at parse time" do
+    ScratchPad.record []
+    -> {
+      eval 'ScratchPad << 1; :"\xC3"'
+    }.should raise_error(EncodingError, /invalid/)
+    ScratchPad.recorded.should == []
+  end
 end