Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:15582] how to get UTF representation of a string?" on 01/05/23, Tjabo Kloppenburg <tjabo / unix-ag.org> writes: |I want to habe the UTF code of a String, "Äðfel" for example. The first |char in the string is an german umlaut, 'A+e'. First, make sure the target string really in UTF-8, then try "U*" template. matz.