From: Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T06:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Escape sequences for unicode chars?

Eric Hodel wrote:

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

>> 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"'
> ?
> $

Thanks! Somehow I didn't expect this to work. Good that it does. I'm
using hex "\xe2\x80\xa6" instead as that's what the nice (unixoid)
unicode command line tool shows, among other things.

Michael

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