# Text to Binary

Convert text to its binary representation and back.

## URL

https://ilham.dev/tools/text-to-binary/

## What It Does

Convert text to its UTF-8 bytes written in binary, and back again. Each character is shown as the eight bits that encode it, which is the clearest way to see how a string becomes bytes on the wire.

## Features

- Runs in the browser
- No login required

## Input

text input.

## Output

text output.

## Privacy

Processing happens locally in the browser.

No input data is uploaded to ilham.dev.

- Requires login: false
- Requires API key: false
- Stores user data: false


## Examples

- Why is one character sometimes more than eight bits?




## Questions

### Why is one character sometimes more than eight bits?

Because it is not ASCII. UTF-8 uses one byte for ASCII characters and up to four for others, so an accented letter or an emoji comes out as two or more groups of eight bits.