Binary translator

Convert UTF-8 or ASCII text to binary and inspect each byte.

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Inspect bytes

Bytes explain the result

UTF-8 represents text as bytes. Each row shows the binary, decimal and hexadecimal form of one byte. ASCII accepts only its basic character range; choose UTF-8 for accents and emoji.

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Worked example

01001111 01000011 01010100 01001111 decodes to OCTO. Each group has 8 bits. An octopus emoji takes several UTF-8 bytes.

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Before you rely on the result

Spaces, underscores or continuous complete bytes are accepted. Incomplete groups and invalid characters are reported. A byte may be part of a character, so it cannot always be displayed as a letter by itself.

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