What Is Unicode And Code Points?

Unicode is universal character encoding system that assigns a code point (a number, or potentially almost any type of number) to every character, regardless of platform, program, or language. The letter “A,” for instance, has a Unicode code point of U+0041, and “😊” has U+1F60A. These code points make to understand to computers to correctly store, process, and display text across divergent systems.

Why Decode Unicode to Code Points?

There are many reasons why you might want to convert Unicode text to code points.

Unicode in programming: Understanding code points can aid in debugging and encoding when dealing with Unicode programmatically. It enables developers to work with text data in a more optimized way, helping to provide the appropriate character representation in various platforms and systems.

Unicode Data Processing: Unicode data processing is at the center core of almost all natural language processing (NLP), language research and everything beyond that including the font rendering (which falls under Normalization). The human-readable presentation of these code points results in standardisation of the text data, which helps in fetching and handling it.

Character Identification: With special symbols, emojis or unknown characters, code points offer an accurate way to identify and distinguish between them. It is extremely beneficial in a multilingual context or with rare/old scripts.

Database Storage: Certain database management systems store character data as Unicode code points to ensure compatibility and data representation consistency across different applications and devices. It prevents problems with mismatched character encoding.

Cross-Platform Compatibility: Unicode code points ensure that text is displayed consistently across different operating systems, browsers and devices. This is fundamental for global applications that users access with text in multiple scripts and languages.

How Does the Unicode to Code Points Converter Work?

Using our tool is very simple and straightforward:

1. Enter your Unicode text into the input field.
2. Get the corresponding code points displayed in hexadecimal format.
3. Click ok "copy" button to copy result.

For example, if you enter "hello", the tool will return:

0068 0065 006C 006C 006F

Each hex value represents a character from the input text.

Examples of Unicode characters and their corresponding code points:

Each Unicode code point is written in the format U+XXXX, where XXXX represents a hexadecimal value that uniquely identifies the character in the Unicode standard.