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Unicode Character Inspector

Inspect code point, name, category and UTF encodings for characters.

How it works

  • Enter a character such as “A” or a code point such as “U+1F496”.
  • The inspector resolves the Unicode scalar value and displays available local metadata plus UTF-8, UTF-16 and HTML numeric forms.

Assumptions and limitations

  • Unicode name/category/block/script/age fields are limited to the locally packaged reference index until the complete Unicode 18.0.0 UCD is installed.
  • A user-perceived grapheme can contain more than one code point; this inspector is code-point oriented.

FAQ

Why can one visible character contain several code points?

Unicode can represent a displayed grapheme as a base character plus combining marks, emoji modifiers, variation selectors or joiner sequences. The inspector works with individual code points.

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