fabianmoronzirfas
10/8/2012 - 3:53 PM

Converting Characters from one textfile into Unicode Numbers saving them in another file

Converting Characters from one textfile into Unicode Numbers saving them in another file

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import unicodedata

gl = open('GlyphList.txt')

string = str(gl.read())
string = unicode(string, 'utf-8')

gl.close()
glyphs = string.split()

try:
	# This tries to open an existing file but creates a new file if necessary.
	gl_unicode = open('GlyphsList-UniCode.txt', 'w')
except IOError:
	pass

for glyph in glyphs:
	# glyph = unicodedata.name(glyph)
	glyph = '%04x' % ord(glyph)
	gl_unicode.write(str(glyph) +'\n')

gl_unicode.close()