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 newer versions of Ruby, you don't need to enforce encoding. Here is an example with 2.1.2:

2.1.2 :002 > "\u00BD"
 => "½"

Just make sure you use double quotes!