I found an explanation to decode hex-representations into decimal but only by using Qt: How to get decimal value of a unicode character in c++
As I am not using Qt and cout << (int)c
does not work (Edit: it actually does work if you use it properly..!):
How to do the following:
I got the hex representation of two chars which were transmitted over some socket (Just figured out how to get the hex repr finally!..) and both combined yield following utf16-representation:
char c = u"\0b7f"
This shall be converted into it's utf16 decimal value of 2943! (see it at utf-table http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0b7f/index.htm)
This should be absolut elementary stuff, but as a designated Python developer compelled to use C++ for a project I am hanging this issue for hours....