Ruby Output Unicode Character

Question

I\'m not a Ruby dev by trade, but am using Capistrano for PHP deployments. I\'m trying to cleanup the output of my script and am trying to add a unicode check mark as discus

Answer 1

In Ruby 1.9.x+

Use String#encode:

checkmark = "\u2713"
puts checkmark.encode('utf-8')

prints

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In Ruby 1.8.7

puts '\u2713'.gsub(/\\u[\da-f]{4}/i) { |m| [m[-4..-1].to_i(16)].pack('U') }
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