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Emma in binary

Emma in binary: the exact UTF-8 bytes your computer stores, bit by bit, letter by letter.

Try:

01000101 01101101 01101101 01100001

Character by character

E01000101
m01101101
m01101101
a01100001

Emma in binary: the exact UTF-8 bytes a computer stores when it saves this name, rendered as eight-bit groups. Plain letters take one byte each. The breakdown below shows each character.

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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