convert a string to its unicode representation

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how can I convert characters such as "ащщ" to their unicode numbers (1072,1097,1097)? I know it's gotta be so easy, but it's going over my head.

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ogre11 wrote:
> how can I convert characters such as "???" to their unicode numbers
> (1072,1097,1097)? I know it's gotta be so easy, but it's going over my head.

as long as you're on mx, asc() should return the codepoint for any char.

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I knew it had to be that simple!!!

anyways, this has been plaguing me for a few days now, but I put together this udf, for anyone who has the same problems

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ogre11 wrote:
> when I give any Cyrillic character to a cf function it gets converted into a
> question mark at some point before the function runs so asc returns 63 on all
> cyrillic characters

encoding issue. where's the data coming from? if db, which one? what driver? is
the data really unicode?

do you have a simple example showing the problem?

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the question marks were being caused by dreamweaver. it was a backend cfm script so there was no meta tag, so dreamweaver was probably saving it as iso-5589-1, when I put in a metatag charset="utf-8" and then saved closed opened it worked.

Anyways, solution above. Thanks for your help!

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ogre11 wrote:
> the question marks were being caused by dreamweaver. it was a backend cfm
> script so there was no meta tag, so dreamweaver was probably saving it as
> iso-5589-1, when I put in a metatag charset="utf-8" and then saved closed
> opened it worked.

a BOM would be a better choice if dreamweaver supports it.