UTF16 value of Charecters

culin · 06-11-2009, 05:43 AM

Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to get the UTF16 values of the English alphabets when they are stored ??
say, i have a variable
char ch = 'A'
now is there any way to know or print its UTF16 encoded value when it is stored in memory ?
Thanks

Su-Shee · 06-11-2009, 06:58 AM

In the Linux/Unix world UTF-8 ist used and usally not UTF-16. (Just to mention that..)

And yes, you can find out the encoding of some character:

All ASCII (and iso-8859-1 btw) characters are in Unicode/UTF* like their counterparts in ASCII but just with leading 00 - if A is in ASCII 41 (in hex), it's translated into 0041. (More bits..)

Usally, you've got some encoding/recoding functions in most programming languages for this stuff.

See also the excellent Wikipedia articles about Unicode, UTF-16 and UTF-8.