[MacRuby-devel] convert array into a string

[Caio Chassot]

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')