Unicode explorer

It can be cumbersome to work out some of the details of this by hand, so you can use the little Javascript-based tool below to display useful information about any string you can enter into the text field. Currently I don't have any support for going the other way (e.g. from UTF-16 code units to text) but hopefully this is still useful.

Enter text here:

Character	Unicode	UTF-16	UTF-8

This table breaks down the text in the text-box into Unicode characters. It does not perform any kind of normalization, so an accented character may appear as one character or more, depending on whether it is entered as a single character including the accent (e.g. é), or a non-accented character followed by combining characters (e.g. é - yes, that really is different to the previous example; copy and paste them both to see!). However, it does break the input into Unicode characters instead of just UTF-16 code units; a surrogate pair is treated as a single character. For example,