How to see UNICODE character number?

[OutbackDingo]

would utf2ascii be any help here or recode ?? both are in ports
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 03:11 -0600, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 02:19:35 am Yuri wrote:
> > > > All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-)
> > >
> > > Have you tried kcharselect ?
> >
> > Tried it now. When I paste the character to the box in the bottom and press
> > Enter nothing happens.
> > I would like to see it's UNICODE number (like &9991;)
> >
> > But it goes the opposite way: from UNICODE number to the character.
> > The problem though that there are ~20K Chinese characters in UNICODE table.
> 
> You can look up the character on the table and get the code point. 來 =  
> U+4f86, but with 20k characters that would be a hassle. Sorry I couldn't be 
> more helpful.
> 
> David