namespectrum / Binary

Your name in binary

The exact ones and zeros a computer stores your name as, byte by byte.

Try:

Type a name above and watch this space.

How it works

Computers store text as numbers. UTF-8, the encoding almost the whole internet uses, turns each character into one or more bytes of eight bits. What you see here is your name exactly as a computer keeps it, capitals and all: change one letter’s case and the bits change with it.

Plain English letters fit in one byte each. Accented letters take two: type José and watch the é unfold into sixteen bits.

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