On 2011-01-10, at 19:19 , Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

Assuming your array contains ASCII fixnum representation of characters, messaging #pack('c*') on it should give you a string object back.

I dislike this method, but here I don't see a better choice.

numbers = [65, 195, 169]
s = numbers.map(&:chr).join

you may want to force the string to be treated as UTF-8.

s.force_encoding('UTF-8')