🔬 Unicode Microscope 98

Specimen input

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Unicode normalization

NFC composes compatible sequences; NFD decomposes them. NFKC/NFKD also apply compatibility mappings that can change presentation or meaning.

Normalized output

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Character anatomy

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0Code points

0UTF-16 units

0UTF-8 bytes

0Words

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Raw UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol is not always one code point. Flags, skin tones, emoji sequences and combining accents may span several code points. UTF-16 lengths can differ again.