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 Çclass ut16È) 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. Perl will do it easily as well. As to getting the individual bytes, this is as far as I have time to go at the moment, and it's a lot of typing for very little result: set _clip to the clipboard set f to (path to temporary items from user domain as string) & "tmp.txt" try close access file f end try open for access file f with write permission set eof file f to 0 write _clip as Çclass ut16È to file f close access file f set _s to read file f as string set {_a, _b} to characters 3 through 4 of _s -- (the first 2 chars are the BOM) {ASCII number _a, ASCII number _b} --=> {186, 37} JD