Getting unicode string from its code - C#

c# unicode string-concatenation
Navaneeth K N picture Navaneeth K N · Jun 15, 2009 · Viewed 34.6k times · Source

I know following is the way to use unicode in C#

string unicodeString = "\u0D15";

In my situation, I will not get the character code (0D15) at compile time. I get this from a XML file at runtime. I wonder how do I convert this code to unicode string? I tried the following

// will not compile as unrecognized escape sequence
string unicodeString = "\u" + codeFromXML; 

// will compile, but just concatenates u with the string got from XML file.
string unicodeString = "\\u" + codeFromXML;

How do I handle this situation?

Any help would be great!

Answer

arul picture arul · Jun 15, 2009

You want to use the char.ConvertFromUtf32 function.

string codePoint = "0D15";

int code = int.Parse(codePoint, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
string unicodeString = char.ConvertFromUtf32(code);
// unicodeString = "ക"

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