Binary Encoder/Decoder
Encode text to binary or decode binary back to text
1. What is Binary?
Binary is a base-2 number system that uses only two digits: 0 and 1. In computers, text is stored as binary data where each character is represented by 8 bits (1 byte).
2. How does it work?
Binary encoding converts text characters to their ASCII/Unicode numeric values, then represents each number in base-2 (binary). Each character becomes an 8-bit byte. For example, 'A' has ASCII value 65, which is 01000001 in binary. Decoding reverses this process by converting 8-bit chunks back to characters.
3. Examples
Encode simple text
Hello → 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111Encode single character
A → 01000001Decode binary
01001000 01101001 → Hi4. Source Code
typescript
1// Encode text to binary
2function textToBinary(text: string): string {
3 return text
4 .split('')
5 .map(char => {
6 const binary = char.charCodeAt(0).toString(2);
7 return binary.padStart(8, '0');
8 })
9 .join(' ');
10}