Getting the unicode value of a char in VB

Question

How can I get the unicode value of a char?

For example, I know that I can do this with ascii:

i = Asc("a") // i == 97 (correct)

What if I have a unicode char though?

i = Asc("•") // i == 149 (incorrect... should return 8226)

Obviously the second example doesn't work since that character is not in the Ascii set. Is there an equivalent function that I can use which will return 8226 instead of the incorrect result 149?

I'm doing this in Outlook 2003, if that makes any difference.

Answer 1

What about AscW ?