How to get a char input and transform it to unicode and print it(Java)

Question

char c = '3';
System.out.println(c);
System.out.println((int)c);

The problem that I'm having is getting the input of the char and turning it to unicode. Any advice would be helpful.

Not sure what you mean by "transforming into unicode"; do you want to obtain the code point? Also, remember that a `char` is a UTF-16 code unit, so only code points inside the BMP fit into a single `char` — fge, Oct 26 '14 at 13:29
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220366/get-unicode-value-of-a-character — ROMANIA_engineer, Oct 26 '14 at 13:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 13:52

You can use, for instance, Character.toCodePoint().

For code points inside the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane; code points from U+0000 to U+FFFF), the first argument to this method will always be 0. Note that the reverse operation is Character.toChars().

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 13:32

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I dont't understand what you want on the output, unicode code of symbol or something else? And also in Java all symbols are in Unicode : Refer

answered Oct 26 '14 at 13:32

igor29

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a program that takes a char( for example the letter a and it gives the number that it stands for in unicode : a http://unicode-table.com/en/#0061 – fabio lapa Oct 26 '14 at 13:42
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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 14:09

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you can use Character.hashCode(char value).

answered Oct 26 '14 at 14:09

Karo

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Conforming Java implementation can do almost anything in this function, including always returning zero. – Karol S Oct 26 '14 at 18:11
@KarolS I was thinking that it always return Unicode for characters – Karo Oct 27 '14 at 15:56

How to get a char input and transform it to unicode and print it(Java)

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