How do you extract hex value of a Unicode character ?

[John Lenton]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:03:06 +0800, Posadas, Dennis
<dennis.posadas at intel.com> wrote:
> If unichr(x), where x is a value like 0x4EEE will give you the
> character as mapped in the Unicode tables, what is the opposite of
> this command? In other words, how do I get the 0xABCD value from the
> character itself ?

ord returns the ordinal of the character; if it is a unicode
character, the unicode ordinal. In other words, ord(unichr(0xABCD)) ==
0xABCD

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