How to replace an unicode quotation marks with an ascii in ruby 1.8?

Question

How to find and replace unicode quotation marks in ruby 1.8.7? For example, from:

“Good morning.”

to:

'Good morning.'

Answer 1

You should be able to do normal search and replace, e.g:

>> '“Good morning.”'.gsub(%r/“|”/, "'")
=> "'Good morning.'"