diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 09806e4062..12a34909cb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Sep 29 17:39:42 2015  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (literal_concat_gen, evstr2dstr_gen): keep literal
+	  encoding beginning with an interpolation same as the source file
+	  encoding.  [ruby-core:70703] [Bug #11519]
+
 Tue Sep 29 17:33:13 2015  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/rss/rss.rb (Time#w3cdtf): fix zero-trimmed width of fraction
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 80a45ebf63..8f8bed499b 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -8477,7 +8477,7 @@ literal_concat_gen(struct parser_params *parser, NODE *head, NODE *tail)
 
     htype = nd_type(head);
     if (htype == NODE_EVSTR) {
-	NODE *node = NEW_DSTR(Qnil);
+	NODE *node = NEW_DSTR(STR_NEW0());
 	head = list_append(node, head);
 	htype = NODE_DSTR;
     }
@@ -8550,7 +8550,7 @@ static NODE *
 evstr2dstr_gen(struct parser_params *parser, NODE *node)
 {
     if (nd_type(node) == NODE_EVSTR) {
-	node = list_append(NEW_DSTR(Qnil), node);
+	node = list_append(NEW_DSTR(STR_NEW0()), node);
     }
     return node;
 }
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_literal.rb b/test/ruby/test_literal.rb
index 6e5d41477e..6e6831968d 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_literal.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_literal.rb
@@ -103,6 +103,15 @@ class TestRubyLiteral < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal('FooBar', b, 'r3842')
   end
 
+  def test_dstring_encoding
+    bug11519 = '[ruby-core:70703] [Bug #11519]'
+    ['"foo#{}"', '"#{}foo"', '"#{}"'].each do |code|
+      a = eval("#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n#{code}")
+      assert_equal(Encoding::UTF_8, a.encoding,
+                   proc{"#{bug11519}: #{code}.encoding"})
+    end
+  end
+
   def test_dsymbol
     assert_equal :a3c, :"a#{1+2}c"
   end
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index ce33fad329..691761ea6d 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "2.1.8"
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2015-09-29"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 404
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 405
 
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2015
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 9