Text Encoding Converter

Convert text between character encodings and inspect byte representations.

100% Browser-Based

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No Server Uploads

Zero Data Collection

How It Works

Enter Text

Type or paste text to convert between encodings

Select Encodings

Choose source and target character encodings

View Results

See converted text or hex dump with byte comparisons

Features

6 Encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, and ASCII

Hex Dump View

View raw byte representation with offset, hex, and ASCII columns

Byte Comparison

Compare source and target byte counts side by side

Browser-Based

All conversion happens locally using Web APIs

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to characters that cannot be represented?

Characters that cannot be mapped to the target encoding are replaced with "?" (0x3F). This is standard behavior for encoding conversion.

Why are some encodings not available?

This tool supports the most commonly used encodings. Browser TextDecoder API support varies for more exotic encodings.

Text Encoding Converter

How It Works

Enter Text

Select Encodings

View Results

Features

6 Encodings

Hex Dump View

Byte Comparison

Browser-Based

Frequently Asked Questions

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Text Encoding Converter

How It Works

Enter Text

Select Encodings

View Results

Features

6 Encodings

Hex Dump View

Byte Comparison

Browser-Based

Frequently Asked Questions

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