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ToCharacterCode

ToCharacterCode
gives a list of the integer codes corresponding to the characters in a string.
ToCharacterCode
gives integer codes according to the specified encoding.
MORE INFORMATION
  • ToCharacterCode returns standard internal character codes used by Mathematica, 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.
  • Mathematica defines various additional characters in private Unicode space, with character codes between 64256 and 64300.
  • If a particular character has no character code in a given encoding, ToCharacterCode returns None in place of a character code.
  • ToCharacterCode gives a list of the lists of integer codes for each of the .
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Basic Examples   (1)
Find ASCII or Unicode character codes:
Reassemble a string from character codes:
Find ASCII or Unicode character codes:
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Reassemble a string from character codes:
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Neat Examples   (1)
"Plot" a string:
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