I have these values from a unicode database but I’m not sure how to

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Asked: May 24, 20262026-05-24T11:46:23+00:00 2026-05-24T11:46:23+00:00

I have these values from a unicode database but I’m not sure how to translate them into the human readable form. What are these even called?

Here they are:

How can I convert these to there readable symbols?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-24T11:46:23+00:00

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How about:

# Using pack
puts ["2B71F".hex].pack("U")

# Using chr
puts (0x2B71F).chr(Encoding::UTF_8)

In Ruby 1.9+ you can also do:

puts "\u{2B71F}"

I.e. the \u{} escape sequence can be used to decode Unicode codepoints.

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