ToCharacterCode
 Usage
• ToCharacterCode["string"] gives a list of the integer codes corresponding to the characters in a string.
• ToCharacterCode["string", "encoding"] gives integer codes according to the specified encoding.
Notes
• ToCharacterCode handles both ordinary and special characters. • ToCharacterCode["string"] returns standard internal character codes used by Mathematica, which are the same on all computer systems. • For characters on an ordinary American English keyboard, the character codes follow the ASCII standard. • For common European languages, they follow the ISO Latin-1 standard. • For other characters, they follow the Unicode standard. • Mathematica defines various additional characters in private Unicode space, with character codes between 64256 and 64300. • Character codes returned by ToCharacterCode["string"] lie between 0 and 65535. • Encodings supported in ToCharacterCode["string", "encoding"] are listed in the notes for $CharacterEncoding. • If a particular character has no character code in a given encoding, ToCharacterCode returns None in place of a character code. • ToCharacterCode[{" ", " ", ... }] gives a list of the lists of integer codes for each of the  . • New in Version 2; modified in 3.
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