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Created September 7, 2011 17:45
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Turn "\\u2603" to "☃" in ruby without eval
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unicode_parser.rb
class String
def parse_unicode
dup.parse_unicode!
end
def parse_unicode!
gsub!(/\\u([0-9a-fA-F]{4})/) { [$1.to_i(16)].pack("U") }
end
end
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