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Binary ↔ Text Converter

Turn text into binary (UTF-8 bytes) and binary back into text.

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About the Binary ↔ Text Converter

Turn text into binary (the 0s and 1s of each UTF-8 byte) and binary back into text — for learning, puzzles and debugging.

How to use it

  1. Choose Text → binary or Binary → text.
  2. Paste your text or binary.
  3. Copy the result.

Questions

Why does one letter become several bytes?

Letters outside English (é, ب, 中) and emoji take 2–4 bytes in UTF-8.