Character.CodePointOf(String) Method
Definition
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Returns the code point value of the Unicode character specified by the given Unicode character name.
[Android.Runtime.Register("codePointOf", "(Ljava/lang/String;)I", "", ApiSince=35)]
public static int CodePointOf (string name);[<Android.Runtime.Register("codePointOf", "(Ljava/lang/String;)I", "", ApiSince=35)>]
static member CodePointOf : string -> intParameters
- name
- String
the Unicode character name
Returns
the code point value of the character specified by its name.
- Attributes
Remarks
Returns the code point value of the Unicode character specified by the given Unicode character name.
Note: if a character is not assigned a name by the UnicodeData file (part of the Unicode Character Database maintained by the Unicode Consortium), its name is defined as the result of expression:
<blockquote>Character.UnicodeBlock.of(codePoint).toString().replace('_', ' ') + " " + Integer.toHexString(codePoint).toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT);</blockquote>
The name matching is case insensitive, with any leading and trailing whitespace character removed.
Added in 9.
Java documentation for java.lang.Character.codePointOf(java.lang.String).
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