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Java - Character toCodePoint() Method
The Java Character toCodePoint() method converts the specified surrogate pair to its supplementary code point value.
Supplementary values are not represented in the 16-bit Unicode system. Therefore, surrogate pairs are used to represent these values. These surrogate pairs consist of two characters: a high surrogate code point and a low surrogate code point.
The supplementary code points fall in the range U+10000 to U+10FFFF; however, surrogate pairs fall in ranges: U+D800 to U+DBFF for high surrogates and U+DC00 to U+DFFF for low surrogates.
This method does not validate the specified surrogate pair. The caller must validate it using isSurrogatePair if necessary.
Syntax
Following is the syntax for Java Character toCodePoint() method
public static int toCodePoint(char high, char low)
Parameters
high − the high-surrogate code unit
low − the low-surrogate code unit
Return Value
This method returns the supplementary code point composed from the specified surrogate pair.
Example
The following example shows the usage of Java Character toCodePoint() method.
package com.tutorialspoint; import java.lang.*; public class CharacterDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { // create 2 char primitives ch1, ch2 char ch1, ch2; // assign values to ch1, ch2 ch1 = '\ud800'; ch2 = '\udc00'; // create an int primitive cp int cp; // assign code point value of surrogate pair ch1, ch2 to cp cp = Character.toCodePoint(ch1, ch2); String str = "Supplementary code point value is " + cp; // print cp value System.out.println( str ); } }
Output
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −
Supplementary code point value is 65536
Example
In this example given below, we will pass the alphabet as argument characters to the method.
import java.lang.*; public class LetterDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { char ch1, ch2; ch1 = 'a'; ch2 = 'z'; int cp; cp = Character.toCodePoint(ch1, ch2); System.out.println("Supplementary code point value is " + cp); } }
Output
Let us compile and run the program above, to obtain the output as given below −
Supplementary code point value is -56514438
Example
Let us change the arguments to the method as the numbered characters (which are ordinary BMP characters) and observe the return values.
import java.lang.*; public class DigitDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { char ch1, ch2; ch1 = '0'; ch2 = '9'; int cp; cp = Character.toCodePoint(ch1, ch2); System.out.println("Supplementary code point value is " + cp); } }
Output
The output for the program above after compiling and executing it is given as follows −
Supplementary code point value is -56564679
Example
Following example program takes any two symbols as arguments to the method and returns an invalid supplementary code point as the arguments are BMP characters.
import java.lang.*; public class SymbolDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { char ch1, ch2; ch1 = '@'; ch2 = '&'; int cp; cp = Character.toCodePoint(ch1, ch2); System.out.println("Supplementary code point value is " + cp); } }
Output
The output for the program above after compiling and executing it is given as follows −
Supplementary code point value is -56548314