Inspect a UTF-8 character and Windows line ending without allowing the browser to normalise the original bytes.
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Inspect a UTF-8 character and Windows line ending without allowing the browser to normalise the original bytes. This is isolated practice with invented records. Nothing is uploaded or written into a live system.
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See characters and their exact bytes
Choose hexadecimal input
Choose hexadecimal input.
Hexadecimal describes the bytes directly, without relying on a pasted line ending.
Enter UTF-8 and line-ending bytes
Enter UTF-8 and line-ending bytes.
These bytes contain A, the two-byte character é, a carriage return and a line feed.
Apply the exact bytes
Apply the exact bytes.
Apply checks the complete input before replacing the current buffer. The five bytes remain available in every supported view.
Reveal the line ending
Reveal the line ending.
Escaped text makes the carriage return and line feed visible as separate control characters. It does not add them to the buffer.