pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.jruby.jcodings</groupId>
   <artifactId>jcodings</artifactId>
-  <version>1.0.44-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.0.45-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>JCodings</name>
   <description>Byte based encoding support library for java</description>
   <parent>

src/org/jcodings/Encoding.java

@@ -564,7 +564,11 @@ public abstract class Encoding implements Cloneable {
     public static final byte NEW_LINE = (byte)0x0a;
 
     public static Encoding load(String name) {
-        String encClassName = name;
+        return load(name, "org.jcodings.specific");
+    }
+
+    public static Encoding load(String name, String pkg) {
+        String encClassName = pkg + "." + name + "Encoding";
         Class<?> encClass;
         try {
             encClass = Class.forName(encClassName);

test/org/jcodings/specific/TestUnicode.java

@@ -45,4 +45,9 @@ public class TestUnicode {
         assertEquals(enc.codeToMbcLength(0xfffffffe), 1); // USE_INVALID_CODE_SCHEME
         assertEquals(enc.codeToMbcLength(0xffffffff), 1); // USE_INVALID_CODE_SCHEME
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testEncodingLoad() throws Exception {
+        assertEquals(UTF8Encoding.INSTANCE, Encoding.load("UTF8"));
+    }
 }