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Text to Binary
Convert text into space-separated binary code, one group per character based on its UTF-16 character code.
How to Use Text to Binary
- 1Paste your text
- 2View the space-separated binary result instantly
- 3Copy it to your clipboard
Frequently Asked Questions
Only plain ASCII characters (code points under 256) are padded to a full 8 bits. Accented letters, symbols, and non-Latin characters have higher character codes and will appear as longer binary groups, so the output isn't a uniform fixed-width scheme.
Most emoji are represented internally as two 16-bit "surrogate" code units — this tool encodes each of those two units as its own binary group, so a single emoji produces two space-separated groups rather than one.
Yes — use our [Binary to Text](/tool/binary-to-text) tool, which decodes exactly this space-separated group format back to the original characters.
No — the conversion happens entirely in your browser.
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