Show a character's Unicode codepoint value in Eclipse - eclipse

Question

I have a UTF-8 text file open in Eclipse, and I'd like to find out what a particular Unicode character is. Is there a function to display the Unicode codepoint of the character under the cursor?

Answer 1

I do not think there is yet a plugin doing exactly what you are looking for.
I know about a small plugin able to encode/decode a unicode sequence:
The sources (there is not even a fully built jar plugin yet) are here, with its associated tarball: you can import it as a PDE plugin project a,d test it in your eclipse.

Answer 2

You can also look-up a character in the Unicode database using the Character Properties Unicode Utility at http://unicode.org/. I've made a Firefox Search Engine to search via that utility. So, just copy-and-paste from your favourite editor into the search box.
See the list of online tools at http://unicode.org/. E.g. it lists Unicode Lookup by Jonathan Hedley.

Answer 3

Here's a Python script to show information about Unicode characters on a Windows clipboard. So, just copy the character in your favourite editor, then run this program.
Not built-in to Eclipse, but it's what I'll probably use when I haven't got a better option.
"""
Print information about Unicode characters on the Windows clipboard
Requires Python 2.6 and PyWin32.
For ideas on how to make it work on Linux via GTK, see:
http://mrlauer.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/python-and-the-clipboard/
"""
import win32con
import win32clipboard
import unicodedata
import sys
import codecs
from contextlib import contextmanager
MAX_PRINT_CHARS = 1
# If a character can't be output in the current encoding, output a replacement e.g. '??'
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(sys.stdout.encoding)(sys.stdout, errors='replace')
#contextmanager
def win_clipboard_context():
"""
A context manager for using the Windows clipboard safely.
"""
try:
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
yield
finally:
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
def get_clipboard_text():
with win_clipboard_context():
clipboard_text = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT)
return clipboard_text
def print_unicode_info(text):
for char in text[:MAX_PRINT_CHARS]:
print(u"Char: {0}".format(char))
print(u" Code: {0:#x} (hex), {0} (dec)".format(ord(char)))
print(u" Name: {0}".format(unicodedata.name(char, u"Unknown")))
try:
clipboard_text = get_clipboard_text()
except TypeError:
print(u"The clipboard does not contain Unicode text")
else:
print_unicode_info(clipboard_text)