Binary Translator

Binary to Text Converter - Translate Binary Code to Text

Our binary code translator converts the binary code to text/English or ASCII for reading or printing purposes. The tool also converts binary to utf-8, and binary to Unicode. Just paste the binary value and hit the convert button for binary to text conversion.

How to use the binary code translator to translate the binary to ASCII, UTF-8, and Unicode?

Using a binary to text converter is simple and involves a few steps.

• Open the Binary Translator.
• Paste the binary code in the space provided for that purpose.
• Select the character encoding scheme from the dropdown. By default, "ASCII/UTF-8" is selected.
• Click on the "Convert" button.
• The tool processes your request and serves you the required result.
• You can use text to binary to convert and translate text to binary.

What does 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 mean?

Open the binary translator and enter the above-mentioned binary code. 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 in binary be “hello”.

What is a Binary Number System?

The number or numeral system is a way of naming or representing the number. It's a system used in computer architecture for naming or describing numeric values.

There are several types of the number system. But among them, the four are well known and are in our everyday use.

1. Binary number system (base 2)
2. Octal number system (base 8)
3. Decimal number system(base 10)
4. Hexadecimal number system (base 16)

The number is expressed in the binary system or base-2 numeral system in a binary number system. The binary describes the number by employing only 0 and 1.

Ancient Egypt, China, and India already adopted that numbering system for various reasons if we look at the past. Today, that numeral system has become integral to the modern world's electronics and computer architecture language. It's the most efficient system for detecting an electrical signal in (1) and off (0) states.

In the modern world, almost all electronics and computer architectures are based on that system because of its direct implementation in digital circuits using logic gates.

What is Bit in the binary numeral system?

Every binary digit is called a "Bit." Each binary number consists of several digits (bits). For example

• 01 is a two-bit binary number
• 101 is a three-bit binary number
• 01001000 is an eight-bit binary number

The text you read on your digital device consists of binary codes. But, you are reading this because those binary codes are decoded to human-readable plain text.

Unicode, UTF-8, ASCII

Encoding is converting characters in human languages to a binary format to make them processable for computers.

What is ASCII?

ASCII, the short form of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a primary character encoding scheme. ASNI (American National Standards Institute) mainly developed a fixed-length encoding scheme in 1960 for electronic communications in the United States. That scheme specifically encodes the Latin alphabets (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0 to 9), and common symbols (+, -, /, ", ! etc.) present in the US and US-based digital systems.

The ASCII character set contains 128 characters, each with a unique value between 0 to 127. The 7-bit binary number represents each ASCII character in its character set because the 7-bit binary number can hold the value from 0 to 127.

In ASCII, the bit-width/length (the length of a binary number used by the encoding scheme to represent the character) is 7. But in our computing system, the memory comprises small unit cells, each containing 8-bit (byte). Even though ASCII needs 7-bit to encode the character, but stores it as 8-bit by keeping the first bit zero. Thus, in actuality, the ASCII bit-width is 8.

Note: The encoded binary value for capital and lowercase letters also differs. For example,

• The capital letter "A" is represented by the character 01000001.
• The lowercase letter "a" is represented by the character 01100001.

It's just a little hack to note. Check the first three digits in the string that define its upper or lower case. If it's 010, then it's upper case. If it's 011, then it's a lowercase letter.

What is Unicode?

The ASCII character set can represent the limited number of characters available, with each character getting fixed eight bits (1 byte). If you do math calculations, you will get 256 ways to group eight 1s and 0s. Thus, it gives us 256 different ways to represent the character in ASCII.

As the computing system expands globally, the computer system stores the text in a language other than English, which includes non-ASCII characters. To accommodate the non-ASCII characters, people started considering using the numbers 128 to 255, still available on a single byte.

Like the ASCII, the Unicode assigns a unique code called code point (the decimal value associated with each character in the character set) to each character. But Unicode is a more sophisticated system that can produce more than a million code points. Thus, making it a better attempt to create a single character set representing every character present in every imaginable language. For example, in Unicode, the code points are written as U+2587, where "U" means the Unicode, and the numbers are hexadecimal.

Unicode is a universal standard to encode all languages, maintained by Unicode Consortium. It even includes emojis. But, Unicode alone does not perform the task of storing the words in binary format. The computer system needs a more sophisticated way to translate Unicode into binary form to store its characters in text files. Here's where UTF-8 comes in, which helps keep and represent those code points.

What is UTF-8?

UTF-8, a short form of Unicode Transformation Format - 8 bits, is an 8-bit variable encoded scheme designed to harmonize with ASCII encoding. Unlike ASCII, a fixed-length encoding scheme encodes a fixed 1 byte. UTF-8 uses 1 or up to 4 bytes to encode the characters. That encoded scheme uses its UTF character set to do the encoding.

The UTF-8 can translate any Unicode character to its unique binary string and translate back the binary string to a Unicode character.

In the UTF-8, the first 256 characters in the character set are represented as one byte. The above characters are encoded as two-byte, three-byte, and eventually four-byte binary units.

But the question is, why does UTF-8 convert some characters to one byte and others to up to four-byte? The simple answer is to save the memory. Use less space to represent more common characters (ASCII character set). Suppose if encoded each Unicode character to four-byte, a single English written file would be four times larger.

Another benefit of UTF-8 encoding is its compatibility with ASCII. The first 128 characters of the Unicode character set match the ASCII character set and translate those assigned 128 characters to the exact binary string as in ASCII.

For example,

• 01000001 = A (ASCII)
• 01000001 = A (UTF-8)

Table of Binary, Decimal, ASCII, and Hexadecimal values