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Noah in binary

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

Try:

01001110 01101111 01100001 01101000

Character by character

N01001110
o01101111
a01100001
h01101000

Noah 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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