Online Text to Binary Converter

Binary, also known as the base-2 numeral system, is a method of representing numbers using only two symbols: 0 and 1. It is the fundamental system used by computers and digital electronics, as their basic building blocks are binary switches called bits, which can have only two states: on (1) and off (0).

In binary, each digit is called a bit, and a group of 8 bits is called a byte. The binary system works similarly to other numeral systems (like decimal) but with a base of 2. For example, the binary number 1011 represents the decimal number 11, calculated as (1 × 2³) + (0 × 2²) + (1 × 2¹) + (1 × 2⁰).

All types of data in computers, including text, images, audio, and video, are stored and processed in binary form. To interact with humans, these binary representations are often converted into more human-readable forms, such as text and images displayed on a screen.

ASCII binary refers to the binary representation of characters in the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) encoding. ASCII is a character encoding standard that uses 7 bits to represent 128 different characters, including English letters, digits, punctuation marks, and control characters.

In ASCII binary, each character has a unique binary code that corresponds to its ASCII value. For example, the letter 'A' has an ASCII value of 65, which can be represented in binary as 1000001. Similarly, the letter 'a' has an ASCII value of 97, which corresponds to the binary representation 1100001.

When converting text to ASCII binary, you would replace each character in the text with its corresponding 7-bit binary code. This binary representation can then be processed or transmitted by a computer or digital system. To convert ASCII binary back into text, you would reverse the process: take each 7-bit binary code, find its corresponding ASCII value, and map that value to the appropriate character.

In most programming languages, there are built-in functions or libraries that allow you to convert text to binary and vice versa.

To convert text to binary, you can iterate over each character in the text string, get its ASCII value, and then convert that value to its binary representation.

To convert binary to text, you can split the binary string into chunks of 7 bits (if using ASCII) or 8 bits (if using Extended ASCII or Unicode), convert each chunk to a decimal number, and then map that number to the corresponding ASCII or Unicode character.

Remember to consider the character encoding used in your text when doing these conversions, as different encodings may map the same binary number to different characters.

Please note that while ASCII is sufficient for English text and some other languages, it cannot represent characters from many other languages. For those, you should use Unicode or another suitable encoding.