Inspect any text for Unicode code points, block names, and character properties online for free. Identify hidden characters and emoji. Free Unicode.
Paste your text at tools.arkaserve.com/unicode-inspector — every character including invisible ones is listed with its Unicode code point. Zero-width spaces (U+200B) appear as "[ZERO WIDTH SPACE]", non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) as "[NO-BREAK SPACE]", and directional marks (U+200F, U+200E) as their Unicode names. These invisible characters are common in copy-pasted text from PDFs, web pages, and Word documents, and they cause silent failures in string comparisons, regex patterns, and database queries. Completely free.
A Unicode code point is a unique number assigned to every character in the Unicode standard, written as U+XXXX (hexadecimal). For example: A = U+0041, e with accent = U+00E9, heart = U+2764. Code points matter because two characters can look identical but have different code points — a common source of bugs when copy-pasting text from PDFs or international sources into code. The inspector reveals the exact code point of every character.
PDFs and websites commonly use Unicode characters that look like standard ASCII but are not. Smart curly quotes, em dashes, non-breaking spaces (U+00A0 that looks like a space but is not U+0020), and zero-width spaces all cause unexpected behavior in string matching, JSON parsing, and database storage. The Unicode inspector identifies every non-ASCII character so you can clean the text or adjust your parser.