diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9a1e7ebb95..0417dadc66 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Dec 22 00:56:43 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* sample/test.rb (valid_syntax): force_encoding input script.
+
 Fri Dec 21 23:48:38 2007  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/mkmf.rb (depend_rules): suffixes list broken. fixed.
diff --git a/sample/test.rb b/sample/test.rb
index a9940039cd..52898d582c 100644
--- a/sample/test.rb
+++ b/sample/test.rb
@@ -1866,6 +1866,7 @@ end
 
 def valid_syntax?(code, fname)
   p fname
+  code.force_encoding("ascii-8bit")
   code = code.sub(/\A(?:\s*\#.*$)*(\n)?/n) {
     "#$&#{"\n" if $1 && !$2}BEGIN{return true}\n"
   }
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 447c0416c4..b4e47dfdf2 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.9.0"
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2007-12-21"
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2007-12-22"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 190
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20071221
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20071222
 #define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 0
 
 #define RUBY_VERSION_MAJOR 1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION_TEENY 0
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2007
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 12
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DAY 21
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DAY 22
 
 #ifdef RUBY_EXTERN
 RUBY_EXTERN const char ruby_version[];