Sublime Text ASCII character display

whatsmychar.py

import sublime, sublime_plugin, textwrap, unicodedata

# from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22063366/show-info-about-current-character-in-status-bar-in-sublime-text-2

class utfcodeCommand(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
    def on_selection_modified(self, view):
        # some test chars = $ €
        sublime.status_message('Copying with pretty format')
        selected = view.substr(view.sel()[0].a)
        char = str(selected)
        view.set_status('Charcode', "ASCII: " + str(ord(selected)) + " UTF: " + str(char.encode("unicode_escape"))[2:-1])