Quikbench
Quikbench
Convert text to Unicode code points, JavaScript escape sequences, or HTML entities — or decode them straight back to readable text. Nothing you type here is ever sent anywhere.
Choose a direction and format, then type or paste your text. The converted result appears below, ready to copy.
Choose a direction — Text to Unicode, or Unicode back to text — and a format: U+XXXX code points, JavaScript/JSON-style backslash-u escapes, or HTML numeric entities. Type or paste your content and the conversion happens instantly as you type.
Everything happens locally in your browser using plain JavaScript — there's no upload, no account, and no server involved at any point. Close the tab and your text is gone.
Converting text to Unicode escape sequences (or decoding them back) comes up most often in software development — debugging why a string displays incorrectly, inspecting what characters are actually inside a piece of text copied from somewhere else, or preparing text for systems that require escaped Unicode rather than raw characters.
Emoji, accented letters, and symbols from non-Latin scripts are all valid Unicode characters and will convert correctly — each maps to its own code point (or in some cases, a combination of code points), which is exactly what this tool reveals.
A Unicode code point is the unique number assigned to every character across all writing systems and symbols. It's commonly written as U plus a hexadecimal number, such as U+0041 for the capital letter A.
A code point like U+0041 is the formal Unicode notation. A JavaScript or JSON escape sequence writes the same character as a backslash followed by a lowercase u and four hex digits, used inside source code and string literals.
This is useful for debugging encoding issues, embedding special characters or emoji safely inside JSON or JavaScript strings, or inspecting exactly which characters make up a piece of text, including invisible or look-alike characters.
ASCII covers only 128 basic characters (English letters, digits, common punctuation). Unicode is a much larger standard covering virtually every character from every written language, plus symbols and emoji — which is why non-English or special-character text often needs Unicode-aware handling.
This usually happens when text is interpreted using the wrong character encoding — the underlying Unicode code points are correct, but the software displaying them assumed the wrong encoding scheme.
📖 Related guide: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained