Text to Binary Converter
A Unicode-aware text-to-binary converter that exposes the actual UTF-8 bytes, bit count, character count, and hexadecimal representation.
Text becomes bytes before it becomes bits
Computers encode text as bytes. This tool uses UTF-8, the dominant Unicode encoding, then writes every byte as an 8-bit binary group.
Plain ASCII characters occupy one byte. Other characters can occupy two, three, or four UTF-8 bytes, which is why an emoji does not fit into one 8-bit group.
Examples
ASCII example
Input
A
Show result
Result
01000001
Word example
Input
Hi
Show result
Result
01001000 01101001
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this ASCII or Unicode?
It uses UTF-8. ASCII characters keep their familiar one-byte values, while the rest of Unicode is encoded with multiple bytes as needed.
Are spaces included?
Yes. A space is UTF-8 byte 00100000.
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