From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T01:04:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby and a Ruby Reference

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:12:18 +0900, Giulio  Piancastelli
<giulio.piancastelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> How a literal Unicode character can be inserted in a Ruby String? I
> recall Java having the \uNNNN escaping, for example, but I wasn't able
> to find a similar mechanism for Ruby. (On the other hand, I'm aware of
> escaping for octal and hex character codes, e.g. \NNN and \xNN.)

\u4321 is a UTF-16BE encoding, so you would need to know the
equivalent UTF-8 encoding, e.g., \xe4\x8c\xa1.

-austin
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