I have Unicode Code Point of an emoticon represented as U+1F498: emoticon = u'\U0001f498' I would like to get utf-16 decimal groups of this character, which according to this website are 55357 and 56472. I tried to do print emoticon.encode("utf16") but did not help me at all because it gives some other characters. Also, trying to decode from UTF-8 before encode it to UTF-16 as follow print str(int("0001F498", 16)).decode("utf-8").encode("utf16") does not help either. How do I correctly get the utf-16 decimal groups of a unicode character? Continue reading...
