Converters

Text to Unicode

Expose the Unicode code points in text and reconstruct text from U+ or hexadecimal notation.

Local processing

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About this tool

When to use it

Expose the Unicode code points in text and reconstruct text from U+ or hexadecimal notation.

How to use it

Choose Text to Unicode, paste the exact text, and select Convert Unicode. To reverse, choose Unicode to text and paste whitespace- or comma-separated code points. Inspect sequences rather than assuming one visible symbol equals one value.

Guide updated 2026-09-15. Examples checked against this implementation.

Worked examples

A letter followed by an emoji

Input

A🚀

Expected output

U+0041 U+1F680

The rocket is one code point but two UTF-16 code units. Some other visible emoji contain multiple code points.

Errors and unsupported input

U+D800 or U+110000

Use Unicode scalar values. Surrogates and values above U+10FFFF cannot be decoded as independent characters.

Continue this workflow

Text Statistics: Compare code points with the statistics tool's UTF-16 character count.

Format rules and limitations

Text encoding is limited to 2 MiB. The converter does not normalize combining sequences or identify visually similar characters.

Control and combining characters may be valid but invisible or dependent on adjacent text.

Privacy and security

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Why do two identical-looking words have different values?

Unicode can represent a visible character as a composed value or a base character plus combining marks. This workspace shows the actual input sequence.