# String representation of hexadecimal to unicode character

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-representation-of-hexadecimal-to-unicode-character/38289>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** strings, unicode\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-representation-of-hexadecimal-to-unicode-character/38289 "2020-04-27T09:10:23Z")\
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`xxx == parse`:

```julia
julia> Char(parse(UInt32, "03C0", base=16))
'π': Unicode U+03C0 (category Ll: Letter, lowercase)

```

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