Binary to string converter for text messages
Interpret fixed-width chunks of bits as code units (often 8-bit bytes), map each value to a character, then concatenate—our Binary to Character page maps one numeric value to one character.
Detailed answer
Classic “binary to text” splits a bitstream into bytes (multiples of 8), converts each byte to a number, then to Unicode/ASCII. This tool’s **Binary to Character** mode is geared to a single integer: you enter one binary value (e.g. 0b01000001) and see the matching character when the value fits the supported range. For full messages, convert each byte’s binary or decimal value separately, or use a dedicated multi-byte / encoding tool if you need UTF-8 stream decoding.
Relationship context
Text in computers is numeric at the bottom: characters are code points or encoded bytes. Moving between raw bits and glyphs is the same idea as radix conversion plus encoding rules.
Quick conversion table
| Binary (input) | Character (output) |
|---|---|
| 0 | NUL |
| 0b1 | SOH |
| 0b10 | STX |
| 0b11 | ETX |
| 0b100 | EOT |
| 0b101 | ENQ |
| 0b110 | ACK |
| 0b111 | BEL |
| 0b1000 | BS |
| 0b1001 | TAB |
| 0b1010 | LF |
| 0b1111 | SI |
| 0b10000 | DLE |
| Binary (input) | Character (output) |
|---|---|
| 0b1011 | VT |
| 0b100000 | |
| 0b1000000 | @ |
| 0b10000000 | PADDING CHARACTER |
| 0b100000000 | Ā |
| 0b1000000000 | Ȁ |
| 0b10000000000 | Ѐ |
| 0b100000000000 | ࠀ |
| 0b1000000000000 | က |
| 0b10000000000000 | |
| 0b100000000000000 | 䀀 |
| 0b1000000000000000 | 耀 |
| 0b1111111111111111 |
More Binary converters
Dedicated pages from Binary to every other format (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, character), with the same parsing rules as the main Number System Converter.