What's that Unicode character in my clipboard?

Is there a quick and easy way to find the Unicode code point for any character? For example, I see a funny character on a web page, or a PDF file, or some other document.

What I current do is copy the character to the clipboard, save it to a file, and look at the file with a hex viewer. Alternatively I can open Microsoft Word, paste and do Alt+X. Both of these methods are a bit cumbersome. Is there an easier way?

I use Notepad++ so if there's any way to do that with Notepad++, it would be a suitable answer (it's less cumbersome than having to open Word). Or maybe there's a way to do it with a small specialised application?

I work a lot with Unicode characters, so I have written a small Windows application specifically for this:

Unicode Character Informer (Documentation)

In addition, my text editor, Rejbrand Text Editor, has extensive Unicode character support.

Notepad++ has a pre-installed plug-in called Converter that has a option to Convert ASCII to HEX and Vice-versa. This tool is quite useful as to convert data files that are in HEX format which are to be converted to ASCII to read:

That is how it works:

When I'm faced with this problem, a quick Google search usually provides a quick answer. For example, when I google "😍 unicode", I get a result like this:

I like this method because:

• It works on any computer with internet
• You don't have to install anything
• The keypresses required (Ctrl+C & Ctrl+T & Ctrl+V & Enter) are muscle memory actions for me, and probably for most other developers/typists.