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    Unicode half and full width conversion

    By Gareth Heyes (@hackvertor)

    Published 18 years 4 months ago • Last updated March 22, 2025 • ⏱️ < 1 min read

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    I've been reading a lot about unicode over the past few weeks and I decided to add full/half conversion into Hackvertor as a learning exercise. It's useful for testing IDS systems because certain web servers automatically convert the characters into the normal ASCII range.

    Check it out here:- Unicode demo

    You can even assign a custom prefix to the conversion allowing you to produce urlencoded escapes or javascript escapes, a demo of that is available here:- Custom prefix

    Update..

    Modified the prefixes slightly to allow hex entities as well:- Entity demo

    Another update..

    It supports direct conversion of characters now:- Direct conversion

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