Text to binary

Eight bits per UTF-8 byte.

Your text

Result

The result appears here as you type.

Why you would use this

The same bytes as the hex tool, written the way a first-year course writes them. Useful for teaching, for puzzles, and for seeing exactly how many bits a character costs.

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