From d59ad1b19bf31f8d275ed65d1ef2859dafca8ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Reisner <alex@alexreisner.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 14:09:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Drop support for Ruby 1.8.

This will allow us to address long-standing char encoding issues.
---
 .travis.yml  | 4 ----
 CHANGELOG.md | 5 +++--
 README.md    | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5031bd13..9bda7ee4 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 rvm:
-  - 1.8.7
   - 1.9.2
   - 1.9.3
   - 2.0.0
@@ -12,9 +11,6 @@ gemfile:
 env: SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
 matrix:
   exclude:
-    - rvm: 1.8.7
-      gemfile: Gemfile
-      env: SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
     - rvm: 1.9.2
       gemfile: Gemfile
       env: SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4f5fef88..7930eb79 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Changelog
 
 Major changes to Geocoder for each release. Please see the Git log for complete list of changes.
 
-Next Release
-------------
+1.2.0 (TBD)
+-----------
 
+* DROP SUPPORT for Ruby 1.8.x.
 * Add :lookup option to `Geocoder.search` and `geocoded_by` (thanks github.com/Bonias).
 * Fix: Yandex city attribute caused exception with certain responses (thanks github.com/dblock).
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dffacbf4..b3999c1e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Geocoder is a complete geocoding solution for Ruby. With Rails it adds geocoding
 Compatibility
 -------------
 
-* Supports multiple Ruby versions: Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and JRuby.
+* Supports multiple Ruby versions: Ruby 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and JRuby.
 * Supports multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MongoDB (1.7.0 and higher).
 * Supports Rails 3 and 4. If you need to use it with Rails 2 please see the `rails2` branch (no longer maintained, limited feature set).
 * Works very well outside of Rails, you just need to install either the `json` (for MRI) or `json_pure` (for JRuby) gem.
-- 
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