From: Wisccal Wisccal <wisccal@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T15:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to entities like &#x525B;

Jian Lin wrote:
> 
> I was trying to convert UTF-8 content into a series of entities like
> &#x525B; so that whatever the page encoding is, the characters would
> show...
> 

If you are one 1.9, you could use String.codepoints. Something similar 
to:

>> '威斯加的中文很不好'.codepoints.to_a.map {|e| "&#x#{e.to_s(16)};"}
=> ["&#x5a01;", "&#x65af;", "&#x52a0;", "&#x7684;", "&#x4e2d;", 
"&#x6587;", "&#x5f88;", "&#x4e0d;", "&#x597d;"]

HTH
威斯加
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