I'm trying to work with unicode characters, and the information provided by the string's .ord method doesn't help me. I'm used to working with codes like "\uXXXX".

ruby-1.9.3-p0 :119 > form[0]
=> "כ" 

ruby-1.9.3-p0 :120 > form[0].ord
=> 1499 
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :121 > puts "\u1499"
ᒙ

...

:-(

The values yielded by .ord seem to correspond to the 'decimal points' referred to here: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/hebrew.html

I don't know how to work with these values. How do I get the \uXXXX code from that character?

Thank you

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