A tool, not a storage format

Convert a file.

Drop in a file and it converts whichever way round it needs to go — UTF-8 in, UCE-8 out, or the reverse. The conversion runs entirely in this tab, using the real character tables. Your file is never uploaded anywhere.

Direction
Declared contents
Drop a file here, or click to choose one
Any file — we'll work out whether it's UTF-8 or UCE-8
Nothing leaves the tab

There is no server. The file is read with the browser's own file reader and converted in memory, so it never travels over the network.

Every file is checked

After encoding, the output is decoded again and compared against the original, character for character. A file only offers a download once that round trip matches.

Keep the original

UCE-8 is experimental and nothing else reads it. Treat the output as a measurement, not an archive — the UTF-8 original is still the copy that other software understands.