diff --git a/test/stringio/test_stringio.rb b/test/stringio/test_stringio.rb
index 3cf7f42bc5..ab448f0aed 100644
--- a/test/stringio/test_stringio.rb
+++ b/test/stringio/test_stringio.rb
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ class TestStringIO < Test::Unit::TestCase
     s = StringIO.new.set_encoding(conversion_encoding)
     s.write(convertible)
     assert_equal(conversion_encoding, s.string.encoding)
+    s = StringIO.new.set_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
+    s.write("foo".force_encoding("ISO-8859-1"), convertible)
+    assert_equal(Encoding::UTF_8, s.string.encoding)
     all_assertions do |a|
       [
         inconvertible,