I am not that familiar with Javascript, and am looking for the function that returns the UNICODE value of a character, and given the UNICODE value, returns the string equivalent. I'm sure there is something simple, but I don't see it.
Example:
- ASC("A") = 65
- CHR(65) = "A"
- ASC("ਔ") = 2580
- CHR(2580) = "ਔ"
Have a look at:
String.fromCharCode(64)
and
String.charCodeAt(0)
The first must be called on the String class (literally String.fromCharCode...
) and will return "@" (for 64). The second should be run on a String instance (e.g., "@@@".charCodeAt...
) and returns the Unicode code of the first character (the '0' is a position within the string, you can get the codes for other characters in the string by changing that to another number).
The script snippet:
document.write("Unicode for character ਔ is: " + "ਔ".charCodeAt(0) + "<br />");
document.write("Character 2580 is " + String.fromCharCode(2580) + "<br />");
gives:
Unicode for character ਔ is: 2580
Character 2580 is ਔ
Because JavaScript uses UCS-2 internally, String.fromCharCode(codePoint)
won’t work for supplementary Unicode characters. If codePoint
is 119558
(0x1D306
, for the '