# Text to Unicode

Show the Unicode code points of a string, and rebuild a string from them.

## URL

https://ilham.dev/tools/text-to-unicode/

## What It Does

Show the Unicode code points behind a piece of text, as U+XXXX escapes and as decimal values, and turn those escapes back into text. It is the quickest way to find out what an invisible or look-alike character actually is.

## Features

- Runs in the browser
- No login required

## Input

text input.

## Output

text output.

## Privacy

Processing happens locally in the browser.

No input data is uploaded to ilham.dev.

- Requires login: false
- Requires API key: false
- Stores user data: false


## Examples

- What is the difference between a code point and a UTF-8 byte?
- Why does text I copied have an invisible character in it?




## Questions

### What is the difference between a code point and a UTF-8 byte?

A code point is the abstract character number. UTF-8 is one particular way of writing that number as bytes, so the same code point can occupy a different number of bytes in a different encoding.

### Why does text I copied have an invisible character in it?

Usually a zero-width space or a non-breaking space picked up from a web page or a word processor. Listing the code points is what makes it visible.