gives a string consisting of the character with integer code n.
FromCharacterCode [{n1,n2,…}]
gives a string consisting of the sequence of characters with codes ni.
FromCharacterCode [{{n11,n12,…},{n21,…},…}]
gives a list of strings.
FromCharacterCode [codes,"encoding"]
uses the specified character encoding.
FromCharacterCode
gives a string consisting of the character with integer code n.
FromCharacterCode [{n1,n2,…}]
gives a string consisting of the sequence of characters with codes ni.
FromCharacterCode [{{n11,n12,…},{n21,…},…}]
gives a list of strings.
FromCharacterCode [codes,"encoding"]
uses the specified character encoding.
Details
- The integer n must lie between 0 and 1114111, as returned by ToCharacterCode .
- FromCharacterCode ["string"] is equivalent to FromCharacterCode ["string","Unicode"], which converts integer code points in the Unicode standard to the corresponding character.
- For n between 0 and 127, FromCharacterCode returns ASCII characters.
- For n between 129 and 255, it returns ISO Latin‐1 characters.
- For other n, it returns characters specified by the standard Wolfram Language encoding based on Unicode.
- FullForm [FromCharacterCode[n]] gives the full name assigned to a special character with character code n.
- Whether a particular character generated by FromCharacterCode can be rendered on your output device will depend on what fonts and drivers you are using.
- Encodings supported in FromCharacterCode […,"encoding"] include the values in $CharacterEncodings in addition to "Unicode".
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (2)
Give a string consisting of the sequence of characters with codes 97, 98, and 99:
Obtain character codes:
FromCharacterCode reconstructs the original string:
Scope (4)
Create a string consisting of a character:
A string consisting of several characters:
A list of strings:
Use a character encoding:
Use a variable-length character encoding:
All printable ASCII characters:
Some ISO Latin-1 letters:
Some characters in the private use area:
Some emojis:
Applications (1)
All the names of special characters that begin with "N":
Properties & Relations (5)
The default encoding is "Unicode":
FromCharacterCode is the inverse of ToCharacterCode :
This is also true for lists of strings:
FromCharacterCode reproduces the list of strings:
Use FullForm to get the full name assigned to a special character:
The allowed values of the second argument are given by $CharacterEncodings :
Some character codes combine when forming characters:
Tech Notes
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History
Introduced in 1991 (2.0) | Updated in 1996 (3.0) ▪ 1999 (4.0) ▪ 2000 (4.1) ▪ 2002 (4.2) ▪ 2007 (6.0) ▪ 2019 (12.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1991), FromCharacterCode, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FromCharacterCode.html (updated 2019).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1991. "FromCharacterCode." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2019. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FromCharacterCode.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1991). FromCharacterCode. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FromCharacterCode.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_fromcharactercode, author="Wolfram Research", title="{FromCharacterCode}", year="2019", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FromCharacterCode.html}", note=[Accessed: 17-November-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_fromcharactercode, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={FromCharacterCode}, year={2019}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FromCharacterCode.html}, note=[Accessed: 17-November-2025]}