If you look http://www.macchiato.com/ under "Unicode Charts", you can type
in the code point (scalar value) for a character, then Enter, and you will
get a chart. The UTF-8, 16, and 32 numbers are given in the chart for each
value.

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:08
Subject: Speaking of Plane 1 characters...


> One of the tools I use for building fonts requires that codepoints for
> Plane 1 characters be expressed as surrogate pairs, rather than as scalar
> values. I'm hoping this will change on the next release, since the scalar
> values are a lot easier to work with, but in the meantime I need to figure
> out the easiest way to find the correct surrogate pair values for any
given
> scalar value. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, or an easy
> alogorithm (easy for a non-programmer)? How about a web-based form, into
> which someone could enter scalar values and receive back surrogate pairs?
>
> John Hudson
>
> Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
> Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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