With the Euro symbol in cell A1, the formula below has the same result: If text is more than one character, UNICODE returns the number of the first character: Note: the UNICHAR function performs the opposite conversion, returning the Unicode character at a given code point.
Unicode
Unicode is a computing standard for the unified encoding, representation, and handling of text in most of the world’s writing systems. Like ASCII, Unicode is a character set. However, Unicode is a very large character set, because Unicode is a superset of other character sets. Whereas ASCII contains 128 characters, Unicode 11.0 (June 2018) contains 137,439 characters covering 146 modern and historic scripts. Unicode can be implemented in different encodings, for example, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc. UTF-8 dominates the web. It is estimated that over 90% of websites use UTF-8. The first 128 Unicode code points are the ASCII characters.
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