JSON encoding wrongly escaped (Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.2)

Question

In my controller, the following works (prints \"oké\")

puts obj.inspect

But this doesn\'t (renders \"ok\\u00e9\")

render :j         


        

Answer 1

To set the \uXXXX codes back to utf-8:

json_string.gsub!(/\\u([0-9a-z]{4})/) {|s| [$1.to_i(16)].pack("U")}