Question

Is there a way to use sscanf %c to read in the value of a char? How would I put in the escape sequence for unicode or ascii for a particular character?

sscanf("%c",chr);

Answer 1

You can read a character from the input with

 char chr;
 scanf ("%c", &chr);

Reading escape sequences can be operating system specific. On most you would have to tell the terminal driver to not process escape sequences into other actions (like input line editing) and instead pass the raw characters through. Once that is set, then you can repeat the above sequence for each character.