ORD()
The ORD() operator
returns the code point of a character in the current locale.
Syntax
ORD( source STRING )- source is a string expression.
Usage
The value returned by ORD() is the code point in the current locale of the
character passed as argument.
Only the first character of the argument is evaluated.
When using UTF-8 with character length
semantics, the ORD() operator returns the UNICODE code point of the
character.
ORD() returns NULL if the argument passed is not
valid.