how to tell character code of a character

[fred]

I would like to detect the character code of a selected character. For many reasons. One is, I need to know the code and it would be cool if I could just find out with textpad instead of looking it up somewhere. Another is, some characters don't have a unique display. So, if I could select it and right click and get properties of that character, that would be cool.

I got this Idea because I have seen something similiar in BBedit on the Mac.

Does this feature exist somewhere in textpad. I have looked many times but havn't found it yet.

Thanks

[Jeff Epstein]

In the OPEN dialog box, select "Binary" from the "Encoding" drop down box, right before clicking the "Open" button.


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[Fred]

Thanks for the tip. That atleast gives me round-about-way to get the character code.

So, my feature suggestion to the good folks at ipswitch is to provide a quick way to get this. Here are two UI ideas.

a. Right click on a selected character and select "Character Properties".
A little window pops up that tells you everything about that character.
The ascii value, Unicode value if applicable, HTML entity if one exists... Maybe some others that my foggy mind can't think of right now.

b. An option to display the character code of the selected character in a status bar somewhere. (Or the character code of the character to the left of the insertion point.

c. Both of the above.