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  1. Ruby
  2. String
  3. encoding

Get byte from a unicode string


$KCODE = "u"        # Specify Unicode UTF-8, or start Ruby with -Ku option
require "jcode"     # Load multibyte character support

mb = "2\303\2272=4" # This is "2×2=4" with a Unicode multiplication sign

mb.each_byte do |c| # Iterate through the bytes of the string.
  print c, " "      # c is Fixnum
end                 # Outputs "50 195 151 50 61 52 "








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