silliest \u question (decimal to unicode)

[Andres A.]

I have bunch of unicode characters stored as Decimal
is there a easy way of displaying unicode from Decimal numbers or do i have
to convert the decimal to hex then display the hex?
i ran into a small problem with converting Dec to hex and displaying the
hex, because when i do the conversion between Dec and Hex, i dont know how i
can add a \u properly to the result for the compiler to properly recognize
it as a unicode string and not a string with just a \u in it,

i have tried string blah = @"\u" + ConvertToHex(1634); but of course this
will not work because it think its just a string with \u in it and not a
unicode string.

any help would be appreciated

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Andres A. <fa**@fake.com> wrote:

I have bunch of unicode characters stored as Decimal

Do you mean stored as the decimal type, or as strings in decimal in a
file somewhere?

The integer types themselves are always in binary, effectively -
they're just numbers.

Converting an integer into a unicode character is very simple though:

char c = (char)myInteger;

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Daniel Pratt]

Hi Andres,

"Andres A." <fa**@fake.com> wrote in message
news:Po********************@golden.net...

I have bunch of unicode characters stored as Decimal
is there a easy way of displaying unicode from Decimal numbers or do i have to convert the decimal to hex then display the hex?
i ran into a small problem with converting Dec to hex and displaying the
hex, because when i do the conversion between Dec and Hex, i dont know how i can add a \u properly to the result for the compiler to properly recognize
it as a unicode string and not a string with just a \u in it,

i have tried string blah = @"\u" + ConvertToHex(1634); but of course this
will not work because it think its just a string with \u in it and not a
unicode string.

any help would be appreciated

The unicode escape "\u" is only relevant for literal strings (i.e.
quoted string values that are embedded in the code). You can cast directly
from a numeric value (int, long, decimal, etc.) to a char value:

decimal d = 65;
char c = (char)d;

string blah = c.ToString();

Regards,
Daniel

[Andres A.]

thank you both Jon and Daniel
I was aware that a char is really a integer, but i thought this didnt apply
to unicode characters,
thanks works great now.
"Daniel Pratt" <ko******************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi Andres,

"Andres A." <fa**@fake.com> wrote in message
news:Po********************@golden.net...

I have bunch of unicode characters stored as Decimal
is there a easy way of displaying unicode from Decimal numbers or do i have

to convert the decimal to hex then display the hex?
i ran into a small problem with converting Dec to hex and displaying the
hex, because when i do the conversion between Dec and Hex, i dont know how i

can add a \u properly to the result for the compiler to properly

recognize it as a unicode string and not a string with just a \u in it,

i have tried string blah = @"\u" + ConvertToHex(1634); but of course this will not work because it think its just a string with \u in it and not a
unicode string.

any help would be appreciated

The unicode escape "\u" is only relevant for literal strings (i.e.
quoted string values that are embedded in the code). You can cast directly
from a numeric value (int, long, decimal, etc.) to a char value:

decimal d = 65;
char c = (char)d;

string blah = c.ToString();

Regards,
Daniel