How to get the unicode representation of a character (font)

[shammif2]

Hello all !

I'm new to c#.net. these days I'm working with a program that takes sinhala characters (Sinhalese) as input. so i want to identify those characters as user types them. for this i have to use Unicode representation. so how can i do this?

please help me on this. a guide or sample code will help a lot.

is there a any way to get the Unicode form of a character in c#?
i found a way to convert Unicode to string and can i convert other way around?

[kenobewan]

Welcome to the site. Here is an article that may help:
Globalization issues in ASP and ASP.NET

[SammyB]

Hello all !

I'm new to c#.net. these days I'm working with a program that takes sinhala characters (Sinhalese) as input. so i want to identify those characters as user types them. for this i have to use Unicode representation. so how can i do this?

please help me on this. a guide or sample code will help a lot.

is there a any way to get the Unicode form of a character in c#?
i found a way to convert Unicode to string and can i convert other way around?

C#.NET already uses Unicode to store character strings, so there really very little that you need to do. See http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html.

However, C#.NET will probably not be set to the correct codepage. The simplest way to set this correctly is to just use a sinhala character in a literal and then try to save your program. You get a message "Some Unicode characters in the file could not be saved in the current codepage..." You can either click Yes to save the file as Unicode or click "Save with other encoding" if there is a codepage for sinhala. You also might want to install sinhala support from http://www.fonts.lk/down.html.

Here's a sample program that I wrote to see the hex code for the unicode.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    char c = 'ค';
    MessageBox.Show("0x" + Convert.ToInt32(c).ToString("X4"));
}

The above seems too complicated, I thought c.ToString("X") would work, but it doesn't. Hope this helps! --Sam

[UvT]

Hi there,
See this link as well. might be helpful.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oslocversion.mspx#win2k
this tells about code pages available for Windows

[shammif2]

Hello again
Thanks for your kind replies. articles and example codes are very useful and currently I'm working on it.

thanks again!!!!