Gedit plugin for showing unicode codepoints

While working with Unicode text, it is often required to get the Unicode code points of text for debugging. Using python, it is very easy to get the unicode codepoints of the text. Following examples illustrates it. ` “സന്തോഷ്”.decode(“utf-8”) u’\u0d38\u0d28\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d4b\u0d37\u0d4d’ ` or ` str=u"സന്തോഷ്" print repr(str) u’\u0d38\u0d28\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d4b\u0d37\u0d4d’ ` Well, But we need to take python console and type/paste the text etc..How can we make it more easy? What if pressing F12 key after selecting some text gives the codepoints? [Read More]
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