IntlChar::ord

(PHP 7, PHP 8)

IntlChar::ord — Return Unicode code point value of character

public static function IntlChar::ord(int|string $character): ?int

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

This function complements IntlChar::chr().

character: The int codepoint value (e.g. 0x2603 for U+2603 SNOWMAN), or the character encoded as a UTF-8 string (e.g. "\u{2603}")

Returns the Unicode code point value as an integer.

Example #1 Testing different code points

<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("A"));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord(" "));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("\u{2603}"));
?>

The above example will output:

int(65)
int(32)
int(9731)