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Escape Unicode Characters

Converts characters to their unicode-escaped notations. Supports the prefixes:\u``%u``U+e.g. σου becomes \u03C3\u03BF\u03C5. Escape Unicode Characters lives in the Data format category of the fx menu.

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
Inputstringyes—Value to transform. Previous step output or a literal.
Prefixstringno\uChoose one of: \u, %u, U+.
Encode all charsbooleannofalseDisabled by default.
Paddingnumberno4Numeric value. Default 4.
Uppercase hexbooleannotrueEnabled by default.

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

TypeDescription
stringResult of the Escape Unicode Characters transformation.
Escape non-ASCII characters

Convert characters to unicode-escaped notation with a chosen prefix (\u, %u, or U+).

  1. Set Input to the text. Paste:

    Input
    σου
  2. Leave Prefix on \u.

  3. Confirm Output value looks like \u03C3\u03BF\u03C5.