This browser-based utility converts Unicode text to base-2 binary data. Anything that you paste or enter in the text area on the left automatically gets printed as binary on the right. It supports the most popular Unicode encodings (such as UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, UCS-2, and UCS-4) and it works with emoji characters. You can also customize the binary output format by enabling binary padding and spacing. Created by encoding gurus from team Browserling.
This browser-based utility converts Unicode text to base-2 binary data. Anything that you paste or enter in the text area on the left automatically gets printed as binary on the right. It supports the most popular Unicode encodings (such as UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, UCS-2, and UCS-4) and it works with emoji characters. You can also customize the binary output format by enabling binary padding and spacing. Created by encoding gurus from team Browserling.
This utility decodes your input Unicode data into individual code points and then encodes each code point to binary. Depending on which output encoding you have selected, each character can be encoded from one to four bytes in length. If the output encoding is UTF32 or UCS4, then each code point will be four bytes (or 32 bits). If the output encoding is UTF16 or UCS2, then each code point will be either two bytes (16 bits) or, if it's a more complex character, then four bytes (32 bits). If the output encoding is UTF8, then the binary will be one to four bytes in length (variable length 8 to 32 bits). When converting the Unicode data to binary, you can make it print full-length binary bytes always using 8 bits per byte, even if the byte starts with one or more zero bits. For increased readability, you can also put a space between every binary octet. We also support Little Endian and Big Endian byte orders for UTF16, UTF32, UCS2, and UCS4 encodings, as well as prepending a BOM (Byte Order Mark) to the binary output stream. To print the output in Little Endian format, select UTF16-LE, UTF32-LE, UCS2-LE, or UCS4-LE output encoding but to print output in Big Endian format, select UTF16-BE, UTF32-BE, UCS2-BE, or UCS4-BE from the output encoding dropdown option.
This utility decodes your input Unicode data into individual code points and then encodes each code point to binary. Depending on which output encoding you have selected, each character can be encoded from one to four bytes in length. If the output encoding is UTF32 or UCS4, then each code point will be four bytes (or 32 bits). If the output encoding is UTF16 or UCS2, then each code point will be either two bytes (16 bits) or, if it's a more complex character, then four bytes (32 bits). If the output encoding is UTF8, then the binary will be one to four bytes in length (variable length 8 to 32 bits). When converting the Unicode data to binary, you can make it print full-length binary bytes always using 8 bits per byte, even if the byte starts with one or more zero bits. For increased readability, you can also put a space between every binary octet. We also support Little Endian and Big Endian byte orders for UTF16, UTF32, UCS2, and UCS4 encodings, as well as prepending a BOM (Byte Order Mark) to the binary output stream. To print the output in Little Endian format, select UTF16-LE, UTF32-LE, UCS2-LE, or UCS4-LE output encoding but to print output in Big Endian format, select UTF16-BE, UTF32-BE, UCS2-BE, or UCS4-BE from the output encoding dropdown option.
In this example, we convert emoji Unicode flags of the five biggest economies into binary bits in UTF8 encoding. To make the output more readable, we've enabled two output options. The first option adds padding to binary so that each UTF8 byte is 8 bits long, and the second option puts a space between every 8 bits.
This example converts a fancy Unicode font to base two and Big Endian UTF16 encoding. It disables the space between octets option and produces a lengthy binary stream as output.
This example converts a quote by Albert Einstein to binary in UCS-4 Little Endian encoding with a BOM. UCS4 is the same encoding as UTF32, so it's exactly the same as encoding it to UTF32LE encoding. Both UCS4 and UTF32 use 4 bytes per Unicode code point, so each code point is 32 bits in length in the output.
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
View and edit Unicode in a browser-based editor.
Spell out the names of Unicode characters in the input text.
URL-unescape Unicode text.
Convert base-2 data to Unicode encoding.
Convert base-8 data to Unicode encoding.
Convert base-10 data to Unicode encoding.
Convert base-16 data to Unicode encoding.
Convert Unicode text to any radix.
Convert any radix data to Unicode.
Convert Unicode text to ISO-8859-1 encoding.
Convert ISO-859-1 encoded data to Unicode.
Convert Unicode text to ISO-8859-2 encoding.
Convert ISO-8859-2 encoded data to Unicode.
Convert Unicode text to Ecoji encoding.
Convert Ecoji encoded data to Unicode.
Convert raw bytes to Unicode.
Check the Unicode version of the given Unicode characters.
Check if the given Unicode has valid encoding.
Encode Unicode text to Punycode encoding.
Decode Punycode encoding to Unicode.
Convert base64 data to Unicode text.
Convert Unicode to a valid data URL.
Convert a valid data URL to Unicode text.
Decode HTML entities to Unicode data.
Decode UTF8 encoding to Unicode.
Decode UTF16 encoding to Unicode.
Decode UTF32 encoding to Unicode.
Convert all Unicode characters to uppercase.
Convert all Unicode characters to lowercase.
Generate a list of all country flag icons.
Generate a list of all Unicode arrows.
Generate a list of all Unicode animals.
Generate a list of all Unicode flowers and plants.
Generate a list of all Unicode block elements.
Generate a list of all Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Generate a list of all currency symbols.
Use Unicode colors to generate a rainbow.
Create a smiley face from Unicode symbols.
Generate a list of random emojis.
Randomize case of all Unicode characters.
Convert all Unicode characters to lowercase.
Encode Unicode to JSON.
Decode JSON to Unicode.
Randomly rearrange the order of input graphemes.
Generate Alt codes for Unicode characters.
Generate Unicode glyphs from Alt codes.
Print statistics about Unicode data and code points.
Extract a part from Unicode data.
Generate waves with Unicode symbols.
Generate graphs using Unicode symbols.
Wrap a message in a Unicode box.
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