Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...

This is supposed to be simple but I must be a bloody idiot.<BR><BR>How can I get the unicode value (e.g. 0xFFFD) of a given char?<BR><BR>By extension, how can I get the GB or Big-5 encoding?