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copied!<p>When you write a code like <code>string abc= "मेरा";</code>, you already have it as Unicode (specifically, UTF-16), so you don't have to convert anything. If you want to access the singular characters, you can do that using normal index: e.g. <code>abc[1]</code> is <code>े</code> (DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E).</p> <p>If you want to see the numeric representations of those characters, just cast them to integers. For example</p> <pre><code>abc.Select(c => (int)c) </code></pre> <p>gives the sequence of numbers 2350, 2375, 2352, 2366. If you want to see the hexadecimal representation of those numbers, use <code>ToString()</code>: </p> <pre><code>abc.Select(c => ((int)c).ToString("x4")) </code></pre> <p>returns the sequence of strings "092e", "0947", "0930", "093e".</p> <p>Note that when I said numeric representations, I actually meant their encoding using UTF-16. For characters in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28Unicode%29#Basic_Multilingual_Plane" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Basic Multilingual Plane</a>, this is the same as their Unicode code point. The vast majority of used characters lie in BMP, including those 4 Hindi characters presented here. </p> <p>If you wanted to handle characters in other planes too, you could use code like the following.</p> <pre><code>byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF32.GetBytes(abc); int codePointCount = bytes.Length / 4; int[] codePoints = new int[codePointCount]; for (int i = 0; i < codePointCount; i++) codePoints[i] = BitConverter.ToInt32(bytes, i * 4); </code></pre> <p>Since UTF-32 encodes all (21-bit) code points directly, this will give you them. (Maybe there is a more straightforward solution, but I haven't found one.)</p>

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