diff --git a/test/unit/repository_subversion_test.rb b/test/unit/repository_subversion_test.rb
index c111956a..a669b202 100644
--- a/test/unit/repository_subversion_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/repository_subversion_test.rb
@@ -143,17 +143,13 @@ class RepositorySubversionTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
         s1 = "\xC2\x80"
         s2 = "\xc3\x82\xc2\x80"
         if s1.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
-          s3 = s1
-          s4 = s2
-          s1.force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT')
-          s2.force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT')
-          s3.force_encoding('ISO-8859-1')
-          s4.force_encoding('UTF-8')
-          assert_equal s3.encode('UTF-8'), s4
+          s1.force_encoding('ISO-8859-1')
+          s2.force_encoding('UTF-8')
+          assert_equal s1.encode('UTF-8'), s2
         end
         c = Changeset.new(:repository => @repository,
-                          :comments=>s2,
-                          :revision=>'123',
+                          :comments   => s2,
+                          :revision   => '123',
                           :committed_on => Time.now)
         assert c.save
         assert_equal s2, c.comments