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Show code point of the current character [message #515559]

Fri, 19 February 2010 06:47

Eclipse User

Is there a way to find the code point of a specific character in the text editor?

This sounds like a pretty basic and very useful functionality but I can't find it.

Thanks for your help,

BR

Re: Show code point of the current character [message #515568 is a reply to message #515559]

Fri, 19 February 2010 07:05

Eclipse User

Bob Roberts wrote:
> Is there a way to find the code point of a specific character in the
> text editor?
The characters that the editor shows are in Unicode, so I don't quite
understand your question. Do you mean what encoding the file on disk has?

Dani
>
> This sounds like a pretty basic and very useful functionality but I
> can't find it.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> BR

Re: Show code point of the current character [message #515570 is a reply to message #515568]

Fri, 19 February 2010 07:15

Eclipse User

When I open a utf-8 encoded file in eclipse, ideally I'd like it to show me the codepoint (e.g. U+0660) of the character the cursor is placed on. Or at least, give me a way to find out its codepoint.

Re: Show code point of the current character [message #515583 is a reply to message #515570]

Fri, 19 February 2010 08:02

Eclipse User

Bob Roberts wrote:
> When I open a utf-8 encoded file in eclipse, ideally I'd like it to
> show me the codepoint (e.g. U+0660) of the character the cursor is
> placed on. Or at least, give me a way to find out its codepoint.
I see. There's nothing in the SDK that does this for you but it
shouldn't be too hard to implement this on your own.

Dani

Re: Show code point of the current character [message #515586 is a reply to message #515570]

Fri, 19 February 2010 08:10

Eclipse User

Bob,

Java's character representation is effectively like UTF-16. You'd need
to use Java itself to deal with the relationship between surrogate pair
characters and the code point they represent, i.e.,
Character.isHighSurrogate/isLowSurrogate, and methods like
Character.codePointAt or the corresponding String methods dealing with
code points.

Bob Roberts wrote:
> When I open a utf-8 encoded file in eclipse, ideally I'd like it to
> show me the codepoint (e.g. U+0660) of the character the cursor is
> placed on. Or at least, give me a way to find out its codepoint.

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