How is text converted to binary?

Each character is encoded as one or more UTF-8 bytes, and each byte is written as 8 binary digits (0s and 1s). For plain English letters and punctuation, that's one byte -- one 8-digit binary group -- per character; accented letters, Arabic, Chinese, and other non-ASCII text use two to four bytes per character, which this translator handles automatically.

What does 01001000 01101001 mean in binary?

01001000 01101001 decodes to "Hi" -- 01001000 is the letter H (72) and 01101001 is the letter i (105).

Binary Translator

Translate text to binary, or binary back to text, live as you type. Supports any language via UTF-8.

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Common Characters in Binary (UTF-8, 8-bit)

Character	Binary
A	01000001
B	01000010
C	01000011
D	01000100
E	01000101
F	01000110
G	01000111
H	01001000
I	01001001
J	01001010
K	01001011
L	01001100
M	01001101
N	01001110
O	01001111
P	01010000
Q	01010001
R	01010010
S	01010011
T	01010100
U	01010101
V	01010110
W	01010111
X	01011000
Y	01011001
Z	01011010
0	00110000
1	00110001
2	00110010
3	00110011
4	00110100
5	00110101
6	00110110
7	00110111
8	00111000
9	00111001
(space)	00100000
.	00101110
,	00101100
!	00100001
?	00111111