ToCharacterCode
ToCharacterCode["string"]
gives a list of the integer codes corresponding to the characters in a string.
ToCharacterCode["string","encoding"]
gives integer codes according to the specified encoding.
Details
- ToCharacterCode handles both ordinary and special characters.
- ToCharacterCode["string"] and ToCharacterCode["string","Unicode"] return standard internal character codes used by the Wolfram Language, which are the same on all computer systems.
- For characters on an ordinary American English keyboard, the character codes follow the ASCII standard.
- For common European languages, they follow the ISO Latin‐1 standard.
- For other characters, they follow the Unicode standard.
- The Wolfram System defines various additional characters in private Unicode space, with character codes between 57344 and 63743.
- Character codes returned by ToCharacterCode["string"] lie between 0 and 1114111.
- Encodings supported in ToCharacterCode["string","encoding"] include the values in $CharacterEncodings in addition to "Unicode".
- If a particular character has no character code in a given encoding, ToCharacterCode returns None in place of a character code.
- ToCharacterCode[{"s1","s2",…}] gives a list of the lists of integer codes for each of the si.
Examples
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Scope (3)
Properties & Relations (6)
ToCharacterCode always returns a list:
The default encoding is "Unicode":
If a particular character code does not exist in the specified encoding, None is returned for it:
FromCharacterCode is the inverse of ToCharacterCode:
This is also true for lists of strings:
The allowed values of the second argument are given by $CharacterEncodings:
Text
Wolfram Research (1991), ToCharacterCode, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToCharacterCode.html (updated 2019).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1991. "ToCharacterCode." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2019. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToCharacterCode.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1991). ToCharacterCode. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToCharacterCode.html