About the Text to Binary Converter
See how computers store text: every character is encoded as one or more bytes using UTF-8, and each byte is shown as eight binary digits. Plain English letters take one byte; accented letters take two and emoji take four.
How to use it
- Type or paste text.
- Choose how bytes are separated.
- Copy the binary output.
Good to know
- To decode binary back to text, use the Binary to Text converter.
- Encoding is UTF-8, the standard for the web.