Double-byte character problem

[hoishing]

Is there any function/method in PHP to convert a double-byte character into its ascii code?

for example, the traditional Chinese charater "§A" is equal to 20320. In ASP there is a function AscW() to do so. Don't know if we have similar function in PHP.

thanks,
Kelvin

[YappyDog]

You might try the ord() function. It is supposed to return the ascii value of a character. I've never used it with a double-byte character.

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php