# How to emit Russian (Cyrillic) or Chinese characters?

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**Created:** [September 14, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-emit-russian-cyrillic-or-chinese-characters/148518 "2008-09-14T03:10:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Heintze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Siegfried\_Heintze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Siegfried_Heintze)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-emit-russian-cyrillic-or-chinese-characters/148518/1 "2008-09-14T03:10:20Z")

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Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits  
non-ascii  
Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode  
Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410. Is this possible to do in a  
console mode program?

Thanks!  
Siegfried

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**Author:** ![Siegfried\_Heintze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Siegfried\_Heintze](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Siegfried_Heintze)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-emit-russian-cyrillic-or-chinese-characters/148518/2 "2008-09-14T14:21:36Z")

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Hi!

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:03:00 +0200, Siegfried Heintze  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits  
> non-ascii Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode  
> Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410. Is this possible to do in a  
> console mode program?

As a couple of mail programs and a number of newsreaders have issues  
with  
Unicode in general and Chinese in particular, here is comes a shameless  
plug 🙂

I wrote the small blog entry “Examples of Unicode Strings in Ruby” -  
[http://penpen.goodaddress.eu/?p=617](http://penpen.goodaddress.eu/?p=617) - that illustrates what I would do  
to  
output Unicode. Let me note that my whole computer system is based on  
Unicode. If the output works on your terminal depends on wether the  
terminal supports unicode or not.

Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt