7stud -- wrote: > Elliott Cable wrote: >> Hrm, #valid_encoding? is very helpful. But how can I stuff numerical >> (`Fixnum`) bytes onto the string? > > hex_str = "\\x%x" % 195 > puts hex_str > > --output:-- > \xc3 That is not exactly ideal. Is there a cleaner way. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.