From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-07-01T05:35:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Escape sequences for unicode chars?

On 30 Jun 2005, at 13:15, Michael Schuerig wrote:

> I'm using unicode in a Rails app and there are some cases where I'd  
> like
> to use escape sequences for characters instead of the literal
> characters.
>
> Case in point is Horizontal Ellipsis, hex 2026. I thought this  
> would be
> \x2026, but Ruby only takes the first two characters following \x into
> account. Is there some way to make Ruby cooperate?

You need to encode it into UTF8 or similar:

$ ruby -e 'puts "\342\200\246"'
�
$

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