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pack a UTF8 string in a huge number, and unpack it
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pack_string_in_number_and_back.rb
def string_to_number(str)
Integer('0b' + str.unpack('B*')[0])
end
def number_to_utf8_string(num)
str = [num.to_s(2)].pack('B*')
str.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
end
p string_to_number("мудак")
p number_to_utf8_string(string_to_number("мудак"))
p "мудак" == number_to_utf8_string(string_to_number("мудак"))
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