How to compare non latin letters?

I would like to assign a number to a specific letter of name.

But the name is let say in Cyrillic 'Том'.

Now the isletter(Т) isnot a valid expression. Matlab does not understand its unicode 0442.

How to get around this ?

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

>> %cyrillic
>> 'АБВГДЖЗ' - '0'
ans =
   992   993   994   995   996   998   999
>> isletter('Ж')
ans =
  logical
   1

in R2016b and later