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Re: Character Values (NLS)

From: Alex Filonov <afilonov_at_pro-ns.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:26:50 GMT
Message-ID: <3A8DD359.2D016C88@pro-ns.net>

Greg Harabedian wrote:

> How do I get a the value of any particular character? I know with ASCII
> characters there is the ASCII function so if I wanted the value of
> capital "A" I would call ASCII('A'). This would return 65. However in
> other languages/character sets, how would you do this? I guess they are
> called "code point values". Is there some generic function that can be
> called?

ASCII function works for other charsets as well, at least for one-byte ones. Don't know if it works for
multibyte charsets. Received on Fri Feb 16 2001 - 19:26:50 CST

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