At 05:34 p +0000 01/11/2011, John Delacour didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>At 01:38 -0800 11/01/2011, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
>>Hey JD, you would probably know this procedure: I see a Unicode
>>character on a Web page <http://www.ytn.co.kr/>, in this case a black
>>triangle (like "[>"), and want to find out what code point it is. So
>>I copied to the clipboard and wrote a script to try and convert it
>>using something like this:
>>
>>item 1 of ((((theU as «class ut16») as string) as record) as list)
>>
>>and then convert the string to hex, but it didn't match the code
>>point in the Character Palette (25B6, or possibly 25BA).
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>
>The best idea is almost cetainly this:
>
><http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/>
>
>UnicodeChecker is scriptable.  An invaluable tool.

Awesome! I never knew of that program. Thanks!!


At 01:17 p -0500 01/11/2011, Mark J. Reed didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>Assuming you're in AS 2.0, all you need is this:
>
>id of (the clipboard as text)
>
>For your triangle, copied from the web page you gave, that gives me
>9654, which is hex 25B6.

I'm still on Tiger -- best version of OS X ever. Still supports creator codes!


thanks,
-boo