Right-pad Unicode

Align your text cleanly by padding characters to the end of each line using the Right-pad Unicode tool. Choose your own pad character and target width, and customize how lines are processed with smart toggles. Whether you’re formatting multilingual text, spacing out emoji columns, or shaping tabular output, this tool gives you full control with instant preview and live results.

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Options
Pad empty lines
Trim lines before pad

How to Use:

  1. Paste your input Unicode text into the left-hand input box
  2. Adjust the Target Width to specify the minimum number of characters per line
  3. Enter a Pad Character (default is space) to use for filling extra space
  4. Use the Trim lines before pad toggle to remove leading/trailing spaces before padding
  5. Enable Pad empty lines if you want blank lines to be padded too
  6. Output updates live on the right and flashes when changes happen
  7. You can import .txt, .log, or .csv files below the input box
  8. Copy, export, or clear output using the buttons below the output area

Tool Options:

  • Pad empty lines: Toggles whether empty lines should receive padding
  • Trim lines before pad: Removes whitespace from both ends of each line before padding
  • Pad Character: Enter a 1–2 character string to pad with (e.g., ., ·, or ␣)
  • Target Width: Number of total characters each line should reach (default is 6)

Example:

Input:

A
β
猫
🎉

Pad Character: ·Target Width: 4Trim: OffPad empty lines: On

Output:

A···
β···
猫··
🎉··

Common Use Cases:

Right-pad Unicode is ideal for aligning strings of variable length into neat columns for text-based displays or code output. It’s especially useful when working with Unicode characters that have visual width variance, like emojis, accented letters, or Asian scripts. Use it to format terminal output, code comments, debug logs, or simply make things look tidy across multiple lines. It gives you full formatting control without touching your original content structure.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

Right-padding works best when spacing is predictable Tabs to Spaces can help convert things cleanly if your text uses tab characters. And if you’re not sure what’s affecting the layout, Convert Unicode to Bytes gives you the raw structure to troubleshoot.

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