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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: How to convert hexacode in currency symbol ?
From:       Eric Christopherson <echristopherson () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-08-31 18:24:51
Message-ID: 20150831182451.GF25814 () gmail ! com
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, Frederic Branczyk wrote:
> Definitely. I thought OP meant to have the hex string as an input and
> expects the unicode symbol as an output. If the goal is simply the single
> symbol then I would prefer your answer.

Oh, right. In that case, one can also do

    0x20b9.chr(Encoding::UTF_8)

in Ruby 2.2. I would have thought #chr without argument would assume
UTF-8 out of the box, but for me at least, it still only accepts 8-bit
values (ASCII-8BIT?)

> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Eric Christopherson <
> echristopherson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, Frederic Branczyk wrote:
> > > Have you tried something like this?
> > >
> > > ["20B9".to_i(16)].pack('U')
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Indrajeet Mishra <
> > > indrajeetmishra7590@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "20B9 " this is my hex Symbol, I want to convert this into a currency
> > > > Symbol but i dont know how?
> >
> > You could also use "\u20b9".
> >
> > --
> >         Eric Christopherson
> >

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        Eric Christopherson
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