diff -ru a/src/ui_utils.c b/src/ui_utils.c
--- a/src/ui_utils.c	2019-09-28 15:38:17.000000000 +0300
+++ b/src/ui_utils.c	2020-10-01 20:35:09.784576365 +0300
@@ -299,6 +299,27 @@
 				symbols_get_current_scope(doc, &cur_tag);
 				g_string_append(stats_str, cur_tag);
 				break;
+			case 'U':
+				{	/* Print Unicode code point of the character at the caret. */
+					guint eof = sci_get_length(sci);
+					if (pos < eof)
+					{
+						/* 
+							Looks like content is always in UTF-8, even if the disk file is not. 
+							Thus, just grab 6 bytes (or less, if eof is close), and interpret the 
+							beginning as an UTF-8 character.
+						*/
+						gchar *  chr = sci_get_contents_range(sci, pos, MIN(pos + 6, eof));
+						gunichar uni = g_utf8_get_char_validated(chr, -1);
+						g_string_append_printf(stats_str, "U+%0*X", MAX(ABS(w) - 2, 4), uni);
+						g_free(chr);
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						g_string_append_printf(stats_str, "%*s", w, "(none)");
+					};
+				}
+				break;
 			case 'Y':
 				g_string_append_c(stats_str, ' ');
 				g_string_append_printf(stats_str, "%d",