UTF-8 Decoder

Input type:

Enter your bytes:

Note: Non-numeric characters in "freeform numeric" and "hexadecimal" modes are silently stripped. If you are getting strange results, double check that you selected the right mode.

You can enter bytes in any of the following forms:

Embedded
Raw ASCII text with UTF-8 encoded characters represented by backslash escapes:
Freeform numeric
Space separated bytes in one or more of the following numeric forms:
Hexadecimal
A hex dump. Bytes are extracted two characters at a time, with all whitespace ignored.
UTF-8 interpreted as Windows-1252
Raw UTF-8 encoded text, but interpreted as Windows-1252. For example, if your source viewer only supports Windows-1252, but the page is encoded as UTF-8, you can select text from your source viewer, paste it here, and see what the characters really are.