How text becomes binary
Computers store text as numbers. This tool uses UTF-8, the encoding used by almost every website and
modern system: each character becomes one to four bytes, and each byte is written as 8 binary digits
(bits). The letter A is byte 65, which is 01000001 in binary. Bytes are separated
by spaces to make them easy to read.
English letters, digits and common punctuation use a single byte, the same values as ASCII. Accented
letters, other scripts and emoji use more: é is 11000011 10101001.
Converting binary back to text
Paste bytes separated by spaces or line breaks; leading zeros can be left off, so 1000001 also
reads as A. You can also paste one long run of bits with no spaces, as long as its length is a
multiple of 8. If the bytes don't form valid UTF-8 text, you'll see a warning and the bad bytes are shown
as �.