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FromCharacterCode

Usage

FromCharacterCode[n] gives a string consisting of the character with integer code n.
FromCharacterCode[{ ,  , ... }] gives a string consisting of the sequence of characters with codes  .
FromCharacterCode[{{ ,  , ... }, { , ... }, ... }] gives a list of strings.
FromCharacterCode[ ... , "encoding"] uses the specified character encoding.


Notes

• The integer n must lie between 0 and 65535, as returned by ToCharacterCode.
• For n between 0 and 127, FromCharacterCode returns ASCII characters.
• For n between 129 and 255, it returns ISO Latin-1 characters.
• For other n it returns characters specified by the standard Mathematica encoding based on Unicode.
InputForm[FromCharacterCode[n]] gives the full name assigned to a special character with character code n.
• Whether a particular character generated by FromCharacterCode can be rendered on your output device will depend on what fonts and drivers you are using.
• Encodings supported in FromCharacterCode[ ... , "encoding"] are listed in the notes for $CharacterEncoding.
• See Section 2.8.8.
• Related package: Utilities`BinaryFiles`.
• New in Version 2; modified in 4.


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