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| function | utf8-char-number | 
  Available in:
   Standard Professional Enterprise  | 
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Library: utf8pat - UTF-8 text processing
 Include: utf8pat.xin  | 
Return type: Integer Returns: Integer value corresponding to the specified UTF-8 character.  | 
  define integer function utf8-char-number
      value stream utf8-string
You can use utf8-char-number to convert a string containing a single UTF-8 character to the character number it encodes.  
If the string does not consist of a single UTF-8 encoded character, the character number of the Unicode Replacement Character (U-FFFD) is returned instead.
The following program converts a UTF-8 encoded file to a long character encoding (2 bytes for every character):
  include utf8pat.xin
  process
      submit file #main-input
  find utf8-char => char
      output "2f0b" % utf8-char-number char
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Related Concepts Character set encoding  | 
Other Library Functions multi-byte-utf8-char single-byte-utf8-char utf8-char utf8-char-number utf8-encoded  | 
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