diff --git a/mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb b/mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb
index 996ad2669..9b7e99647 100644
--- a/mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb
+++ b/mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb
@@ -464,12 +464,10 @@ if UTF8STRING
   end
 
   assert('UTF8 byte counting') do
-    skip('string length is broken after []=')
-
     # based on assert_equal 34, "helloó".rjust(34).length
+    # see https://github.com/mruby/mruby/issues/3448
     ret = '                                  '
     ret[-6..-1] = "helloó"
-    
     assert_equal 34, ret.length
   end
 end