Convert unicode codepoint to string character in Ruby

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How about:

# Using pack
puts ["2B71F".hex].pack("U")

# Using chr
puts (0x2B71F).chr(Encoding::UTF_8)

In Ruby 1.9+ you can also do:

puts "\u{2B71F}"

I.e. the \u{} escape sequence can be used to decode Unicode codepoints.

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