How do i get the decimal value of a unicode character in C#?

Question

How do i get the numeric value of a unicode character in C#?

For example if tamil character அ (U+0B85) given, output should be 2949 (i.e. <

Answer 1

It's basically the same as Java. If you've got it as a char, you can just convert to int implicitly:

char c = '\u0b85';

// Implicit conversion: char is basically a 16-bit unsigned integer
int x = c;
Console.WriteLine(x); // Prints 2949

If you've got it as part of a string, just get that single character first:

string text = GetText();
int x = text[2]; // Or whatever...

Note that characters not in the basic multilingual plane will be represented as two UTF-16 code units. There is support in .NET for finding the full Unicode code point, but it's not simple.