Issue #10111 has been updated by Akira Tanaka.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

gdbm (and dbm) doesn't record encoding.
So, current behavior is natural and not a bug, I think.

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Bug #10111: gdbm truncated UTF-8 data problem
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10111#change-52104

* Author: KiHyun Kang
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Aaron Patterson
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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Reproducible script is here.

~~~
# coding: utf-8
require 'gdbm'

data = "\xEA\xB0\x80ABCDEF"
db = GDBM.new( 'test.db', 0666 )
db['key'] = data

throw 'data truncated!!' if db['key'] != data
~~~



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