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

falsetru's answer is incorrect.

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

This transcodes the checkmark from the current system encoding to UTF-8 encoding. (That works only on a system whose default is already UTF-8.)

The correct answer is:

puts checkmark.force_encoding('utf-8')

This modifies the string's encoding, without modifying any character sequence.