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Decode text

Decodes text from the chosen character encoding. Decode text lives in the Data format category of the fx menu.

Parameters

Section titled “Parameters”
ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
Inputstringyes—Value to transform. Previous step output or a literal.
EncodingstringnoUTF-8 (65001)Choose one of: UTF-8 (65001), UTF-7 (65000), UTF-16LE (1200), UTF-16BE (1201), UTF-32LE (12000), UTF-32BE (12001), and 146 more.

Input is the primary value (previous step output or a literal).

Returned value

Section titled “Returned value”
TypeDescription
stringResult of the Decode text transformation.

Limitations

Section titled “Limitations”
  • This operation treats Input as raw bytes (binary-capable). Non-text payloads may display differently after decoding.
  • Not every charset can represent every Unicode character; unsupported characters may be substituted or cause errors depending on the encoding.

Example

Section titled “Example”
Decode bytes with a charset

Decode bytes from a chosen character encoding back into text.

  1. Set Input to the encoded bytes from a previous step.

  2. Set Encoding to the charset that produced the bytes (for example UTF-8 (65001)).

  3. Confirm Output value is the decoded text.