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In Python API, is there a way to extract the unicode code point of a single character? Edit: In case it matters, I'm using Python 2.7. >>> ord(u"ć") 263 >>> u"café"[2] u'f' >>> u"café"[3] u'\xe9' >>> for c in u"café": ... print repr(c), ord(c) ... u'c' 99 u'a' 97 u'f' 102 u'\xe9' 233 If I understand your question correctly, you can do this. >>> s='㈲' >>> s.encode("unicode_escape") b'\\u3232' Shows the unicode escape code as a source string. cryo Usually, you just do ord(character) to find the code point of a character. For completeness though, wide characters in the Unicode Supplementary

I'm trying to output unicode string into RTF format. (using c# and winforms) From wikipedia : If a Unicode escape is required, the control word \u is used, followed by a 16-bit signed decimal integer giving the Unicode codepoint number. For the benefit of programs without Unicode support, this must be followed by the nearest representation of this character in the specified code page. For example, \u1576? would give the Arabic letter beh, specifying that older programs which do not have Unicode support should render it as a question mark instead. I don't know how to convert Unicode character

In your experience which Unicode characters, codepoints, ranges outside the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane) are the most common so far? These are the ones which require 4 bytes in UTF-8 or surrogates in UTF-16. I would've expected the answer to be Chinese and Japanese characters used in names but not included in the most widespread CJK multibyte character sets, but on the project I do most work on, the English Wiktionary, we have found that the Gothic alphabet is far more common so far. UPDATE I've written a couple of software tools to scan entire Wikipedias for non-BMP characters and found to