Unicode codepoints in ruby
Another post of the category "better write it down before you forget it".
I ❤ Unicode. Atleast most of the time. That's why I have things like ✓, ✗ and ツ mapped directly on my keyboard.
But sometimes you need not only the symbol itself, but maybe the codepoint as well. That's easy in ruby:
irb> "❤".codepoints
=> [10084]
Got some codepoints and need to map it back to it's symbol? Easy:
irb> [10084, 10003].pack("U*")
=> "❤✓"
Oh, of course the usual \uXYZ syntax works aswell, but you need the hexstring for that:
irb> 10084.to_s 16
=> "2764"
irb> "\u{2764}"
=> "❤"
Sometimes you may need to see the actual bytes. This is easy in ruby aswell:
irb> "❤".bytes
=> [226, 157, 164]
There is documentation on these things:
Enjoy the world of unicode! ❤