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Text & binary converter

Encode UTF-8 text as binary bytes and decode it back.

Text & binary converter
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Each UTF-8 byte is shown as eight binary digits. Non-ASCII characters may use multiple bytes. Decoding requires whole 8-bit groups and valid UTF-8.

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Text or space-separated binary bytes
Hello
Direction
Text → binary bytes

Example result

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111