Unicode Text Converter

Convert Unicode to text

Select Unicode escapes / code points to text and paste escapes such as \u0048\u0069 or a list such as U+0048 U+0069. Both become Hi. Braced escapes such as \u{1F600} support characters above U+FFFF, while paired UTF-16 escapes such as \uD83D\uDE00 also produce 😀.

The decoder processes explicit Unicode sequences without executing code. Incomplete escapes, isolated surrogates and values above U+10FFFF show an error. HTML entities, percent-encoded bytes and file encodings require different conversion tools.

Convert fancy Unicode to plain text

Choose Styled Unicode to plain text to apply compatibility normalization (NFKC). This converts many mathematical, fullwidth and enclosed letters to their ordinary equivalents. The tool also removes the underline, strike and slash overlays used by this site.

Normalization is not a universal visual decoder. Small caps, unrelated-script lookalikes, decorative frames and some combining marks remain. Accented text and emoji are not deliberately stripped. Compatibility distinctions in mathematical notation can change, so review the result before using it as an equation.

More on this: Unicode normalization specification

What the conversion actually does

Every conversion here is a character-for-character substitution. The letter A (U+0041) becomes MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL A (U+1D400), or FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A (U+FF21), or CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A (U+24B6). No formatting is applied, because plain text has no formatting to apply.

That distinction matters when you count characters. Most of the mathematical alphabet lives above U+FFFF, so a single styled letter takes two UTF-16 code units. Platforms that count code units — rather than characters — will treat a ten-letter styled word as twenty characters, which is why a styled bio can hit a limit sooner than the plain version.

Combining marks work differently

Strikethrough, underline and overline append a combining character after each letter. The renderer draws it over or beside the previous glyph. The base letters stay intact, but exact-match search can include the marks too, so readability does not guarantee searchability.

Zalgo uses the same mechanism, just with many marks stacked at once. Some apps normalise or strip long runs of combining marks, so heavy stacks are the first thing to break.

• Substitution: bold, italic, script, blackletter, outline, monospace, fullwidth, circled
• Combining marks: strikethrough, underline, overline, slash, zalgo, glitch
• Reordering: reversed and upside-down text, which flips the sequence as well as the glyphs

Normalisation and what survives it

Unicode defines normalisation forms, and some systems apply them to text you submit. Under compatibility normalisation (NFKC) many styled letters collapse back to plain ASCII — a bold A becomes a plain A again. That is a feature, not a bug: it lets search and comparison work. It also means a styled username can silently become plain in a database that normalises input, so never rely on the styling being preserved in a system you do not control.