See code points, UTF-8 bytes, UTF-16 units, HTML entities, escapes and categories for each character, and find hidden invisible characters.
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- Characters
- Code points
- UTF-8 bytes
- UTF-16 units
- Invisible / confusable
| Glyph | Code point | Decimal | UTF-8 | UTF-16 | HTML | JS | CSS | Category |
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- Runs entirely in your browser — your text is never sent to a server
- Highlights zero-width, no-break, BOM and bidi control characters
- Free, no account required
How it works
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Paste the text, code, or token you want to encode or decode.
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Conversion happens instantly as you type.
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Review the result, including any decoded structure.
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Copy the result to your clipboard.
Why use this tool
Every dev utility, one place
Format, convert, encode, decode, and generate — no more juggling ten tabs.
100% private, always
Every tool runs in your browser — your code and data are never sent anywhere.
Works on any device
Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android — nothing to install.
Instant results
No queues, no build step — results update as you type.
Built to handle real data
Full Unicode support and RFC-compliant parsing, edge cases included.
Free, always
Free to use, with no rate limits, sign-up, or trial period.
Frequently asked questions
Emoji with skin tones, flags, family sequences joined by zero width joiners, and letters with combining accents are single visible characters built from multiple code points.
Zero width spaces and joiners, no-break spaces, the byte order mark, soft hyphens, bidirectional controls and other format or control characters.
UTF-8 lists the bytes used to store the code point, and UTF-16 lists the 16-bit units, including surrogate pairs for characters above U+FFFF.
No. All inspection happens in your browser.
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