# Unicode Converter

> Convert text between code points, UTF-8, UTF-16, HTML entities and escape sequences.

This converts text between the ways a character can be written down: its Unicode code point, its UTF-8 bytes, its UTF-16 code units, an HTML entity and a JavaScript escape. Text is iterated by code point rather than by UTF-16 unit, so emoji and other characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane are treated as single characters instead of being split into broken surrogate halves.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/unicode-converter
**Category:** Encoders & Decoders (https://convertto.tech/c/encoding-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Enter or paste your text.
2. Choose the convert to.
3. The result appears immediately — copy or download it.

## FAQ

### Why do some characters show as two code units in UTF-16 but one code point?

Anything above U+FFFF — emoji, rare scripts, historic characters — is stored in UTF-16 as a surrogate pair: two code units that together mean one character. That is why a naive length check reports 2 for a single emoji.

## Sources

- [The Unicode Standard](https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/) — Unicode Consortium

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