From two-bytes of a unicode character to its character code

[ssimop]

Function str s=UnicodeCharToString(i), found in QM heldp files, converts a unicode character code (integer) to string. I am wondering whether there exists a function to combine the two or three bytes of a unicode character to obtain the unicode character code (integer).

[Gintaras]

Assign the string to a BSTR variable. This converts it from UTF-8 to UTF-16. Then get the first character of the BSTR variable.

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str utf8
BSTR utf16
utf8="α" ;;UTF8, 2 bytes
utf16=utf8 ;;UTF16, 1 word. It is Unicode character code.
out utf16[0]

[ssimop]

Gintaras,

Many thanks for an extremely fast and precise reply.

Regards

Simos