From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T06:42:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Escape sequences for unicode chars?

Michael Schuerig wrote:

> 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.


 module Kernel
   def u( str )
     str.gsub(/U\+([0-9a-fA-F]{4,4})/u){["#$1".hex ].pack('U*')}
   end
 end 

 >> u"U+2026"
 => "\342\200\246"
 >> "\xe2\x80\xa6"
 => "\342\200\246"

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