ToCharacterCode¶

Converts a string to its list of Unicode character codes.

$ wo 'ToCharacterCode["abc"]'
{97, 98, 99}

A named character contributes the code point Wolfram stores it at, which for its typeset operators, its script alphabet and several pictographs is a private-use character rather than the standard look-alike — \[WarningSign] is U+F725 (63269), not U+26A0 (9888).

$ wo 'ToCharacterCode["\[Alpha]\[WarningSign]\[ScriptCapitalD]"]'
{945, 63269, 63347}

A name Wolfram has no character for is left as written, so nothing is invented: \[Tab] is six characters, while \[RawTab] is the tab.

$ wo 'ToCharacterCode[{"\[Tab]", "\[RawTab]"}]'
{{92, 91, 84, 97, 98, 93}, {9}}