How to get a utf code from symbol in linux

Question

I'm struggling with a special symbol in a text file on linux. I actually successfully pasted it between the following letters "a‏a" (my cursor in Geany stops but no character is displayed).

I'd like to know what's the easiest way to get its utf8 code (in the form U+0000). I'm using ubuntu and geany and I tried hexdump on a file containing it but I'm obviously missing something.

Answer 1

You could open the file with vim, put the text cursor over the character, then type 'ga' (without quotes) and it will display the character code in decimal, hex and octal in the status line.