How would you get an array of Unicode code points from a .NET String?

Question

I have a list of character range restrictions that I need to check a string against, but the char type in .NET is UTF-16 and therefore some characters become wa

Answer 1

This solution produces the same results as the solution by Daniel A.A. Pelsmaeker but is a little bit shorter:

public static int[] ToCodePoints(string s)
{
    byte[] utf32bytes = Encoding.UTF32.GetBytes(s);
    int[] codepoints = new int[utf32bytes.Length / 4];
    Buffer.BlockCopy(utf32bytes, 0, codepoints, 0, utf32bytes.Length);
    return codepoints;
}