2 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/spec/install/gemfile_spec.rb b/spec/install/gemfile_spec.rb
index 1e59695163..5d8cdb0163 100644
--- a/spec/install/gemfile_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/install/gemfile_spec.rb
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ RSpec.describe "bundle install" do
 
   context "with a Gemfile containing non-US-ASCII characters" do
     it "reads the Gemfile with the UTF-8 encoding by default" do
-      skip "Ruby 1.8 has no encodings" if RUBY_VERSION < "1.9"
-
       install_gemfile <<-G
         str = "Il était une fois ..."
         puts "The source encoding is: " + str.encoding.name
@@ -128,8 +126,6 @@ RSpec.describe "bundle install" do
     end
 
     it "respects the magic encoding comment" do
-      skip "Ruby 1.8 has no encodings" if RUBY_VERSION < "1.9"
-
       # NOTE: This works thanks to #eval interpreting the magic encoding comment
       install_gemfile <<-G
         # encoding: iso-8859-1
diff --git a/spec/install/gemspecs_spec.rb b/spec/install/gemspecs_spec.rb
index a90d2fea4e..c9878ccae8 100644
--- a/spec/install/gemspecs_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/install/gemspecs_spec.rb
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ RSpec.describe "bundle install" do
   end
 
   it "reads gemspecs respecting their encoding" do
-    skip "Unicode is not supported on Ruby 1.x without extra work" if RUBY_VERSION < "2.0"
-
     create_file "version.rb", <<-RUBY
       module Persistent💎
         VERSION = "0.0.1"